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" I love Robin Wright's character in 'House of Cards' because she's a bona fide villain. She's a not-nice person in a believable way; you can see her working in the world. "

Gillian Flynn

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" I was always someone who wanted to write. I was a real shy, bookworm-ish kid, and I think my earliest stuff was fairly dark. "

" What I tell myself is that there is never going to be another 'Gone Girl' for me. I mean, I really believe that. I think I'll write other good books; I have faith in that. "

" The best crime reporters don't mind charging in - but they also know how to do it as decent human beings. "

" As much as I really like the screenwriting thing, the novel is where the author has so much control. "

" I was very interested in what happens to the husband when his wife goes missing, and how quickly they can be turned into heroes and villains. "

" Books and movies are kind of my two great loves. I don't have too many other actual hobbies. That's pretty much it. "

" The funny thing, I guess, is that my husband ended up being the muse of a book about the worst marriage in the world, because if he hadn't consistently said, 'Don't censor yourself, don't worry about me' - if he'd been anxious and worried about it - then it would never have gotten written. "

" The first time my mom read my very first book, she was like, 'I'm not gonna belabor this. It's not a big deal. But I have to ask the question: Is everything okay?' "

" The number of mystery and horror writers I've met who are just the sanest and the nicest people... it's crazy. Maybe it's because the writing gets something out of the system? "

" The midwest is great because it hasn't been entirely claimed. There's more room to write about it; it's harder to write about New York, because even if you've never been there, you think you know what it's like. To do it in any sort of fresh way is trickier. "

" My dad was a film professor, so he would take me to wildly inappropriate movies. "

Gillian Flynn

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Professor

" I was not a nice little girl. My favorite summertime hobby was stunning ants and feeding them to spiders. "

" To me, marriage is the ultimate mystery. "

Gillian Flynn

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Mystery

" I've never been interested in watching or reading anything because it's the hero's story. I don't feel the need to be inspired by the character or learn a lesson. I feel the need to be engaged by them. "

" I've wondered if 'Harry Potter' would have been as big if it was 'Harriet Potter.' Now that I've written a screenplay - and raising a son in particular - I'm looking at story content and realizing how limited women are onscreen. "

" My first job had me miscast as a bubbly shopgirl; I was pathologically shy and, thus, tended to replace human speech with excessive head gestures. It was like being waited on by Harpo Marx. "

Gillian Flynn

Job

Shy

" I do love 'The Turn of the Screw' - I just think that one's always so disturbing. "

" I think everyone self-mythologizes. "

" It seems like the darker the books are, the nicer the person is. People say it's the romance writers you've got to watch out for. "

" I read all kinds of novels, as long as they're good. "

" I liked the idea of a whodunit revolving around a marriage. "

" I think mystery writers and thriller writers - whatever genre you want to call it - are taking on some of the biggest, most interesting kind of socioeconomic issues around in a really interesting, compelling way. "

" A great thriller, to me, is more about creating a sense of unease: a queasiness that comes with knowing something is not quite right. "

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Right

" I want books to give me insight into the way people's brains work and hearts work, and that's what engages me. "

" Libraries are filled with stories on generations of brutal men, trapped in a cycle of aggression. I wanted to write about the violence of women. "

" Some of the most disturbing, sick relationships I've witnessed are between long-time friends, and especially mothers and daughters. "

" We're into this barrage of pop culture - you know, TV, movies, the Internet. We become creatures that we've made up, made of certain different flotsam from pop culture and certain different personas that are in style. "

" Women shouldn't be expected to only play nurturing, kind caretakers. "