Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" I love video games. "
Gillian Flynn
Video Games
Games
I Love
Related Quotes:
" I am not someone who has hobbies. I have tried knitting, and I can't figure it out. "
Gillian Flynn
I Am
Knitting
Someone
" I'm probably a guy's girl, although I hate that phrase. I tend to have more close male friends than I do female friends, and I always have. I would say that of my 10 close friends, seven are men. "
Gillian Flynn
Friends
Always
Men
" Women are just as violently minded as men are, but with men, it's taken for granted. "
Gillian Flynn
Women
Taken For Granted
Men
" I always loved ghost stories and haunted house stories, whether they were done in a fantasy way or done in a realistic way. "
Gillian Flynn
Loved
Done
Fantasy
" I love the way the Victorians found a way to put faces in everything: you know, furniture and marble and, you know, everywhere you turn around - the banister, you know, there's someone looking at you. "
Gillian Flynn
Way
Love
Know
" I grew up in the '80s where there's a lot of these kind of post-apocalyptic, post-comet, post-whatever it was, so that always captured my imagination a lot as a little kid, that idea of getting access to secret places and being able to roam around where you're not supposed to. "
Gillian Flynn
Kind
Kid
Imagination
" One of my rules about writing exercises is you never are allowed to put them in your book because it's just too tempting. You try to shoehorn things that don't belong. "
Gillian Flynn
Book
You
Writing
" I do spend - I feel like I spend about my first 20 minutes at any cocktail party convincing people that I'm not going to harm them in some way. "
Gillian Flynn
Like
Party
People
" There's a book by Anne Rivers Siddons called 'The House Next Door' that I just think is one of the all-time great haunted-house stories. I think that's one of the all-time greatest. "
Gillian Flynn
Think
House
Great
" Even good characters have their dark sides, and I think it is important that women aren't seen as innately good. "
Gillian Flynn
Women
Think
Important
" People focus on the darker female characters in my books, but for every one of those, I can also show you an equally screwed up man that no one ever comments about, or a nicer woman that no one comments about. I don't feel like that's my specialty. "
Gillian Flynn
Woman
People
Man
" I spent a lot of - too much of - my childhood watching movies and thinking about movies. "
Gillian Flynn
Childhood
Movies
Too Much
" I just think - the Midwest, if you grow up there, you're deathly afraid of putting on airs. Any time a Midwesterner criticizes someone, it's usually involving some form of being too big for your britches. "
Gillian Flynn
Time
You
Think
" There's nothing lovelier than having a newborn and still plotting a dark conspiracy. "
Gillian Flynn
Nothing
Newborn
Conspiracy
" 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. "
Gillian Flynn
Wife
Missing
Happens
" I find, the older I get, the more surprised I am about how hesitant people are to say what they really want, what they really dream about, what really drives them. It's as if sometimes we're sort of embarrassed, as we get older, to be transparent about that. But you save so much time if you're transparent about what you want. "
Gillian Flynn
I Am
You
Time
" There are no really new stories anymore. "
Gillian Flynn
Really
Anymore
Stories
" A really great popcorn movie is extremely hard to pull off. A really great popcorn book is equally hard to pull off, so I don't feel guilty devouring one. "
Gillian Flynn
Great
Feel
Popcorn
" In college, I discovered the Joyce Carol Oates short story 'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?' which is definitely one of the most incredibly unnerving, frightening short stories ever written. "
Gillian Flynn
Most
You
Story
" For me, suspense is always harder and better than going for the quick, outright scare. "
Gillian Flynn
Me
Quick
Suspense
" I have two kids, and anyone who has a kid in order to feel loved is going to be in trouble because kids are first and foremost all about themselves. They'll say they love you, but 10 seconds later they'll turn on you. "
Gillian Flynn
You
Feel
Love
" I watched 'Psycho' a million times. "
Gillian Flynn
Times
Watched
Million
" I have four or five ideas that just keep floating around and I want to kind of just let one - like a beautiful butterfly, let it land somewhere. "
Gillian Flynn
Want
Beautiful
Butterfly
" I could not have written a novel if I hadn't been a journalist first, because it taught me that there's no muse that's going to come down and bestow upon you the mood to write. You just have to do it. I'm definitely not precious. "
Gillian Flynn
Down
Me
Mood
" One of my biggest peeves is when the writer hasn't given you enough information to figure everything out. You should be able to go back to the beginning of 'Gone Girl,' after you've already read it and you know everything, and say, 'Check - check - yes, she gave us that information.' "
Gillian Flynn
You
Know
Information
" I don't think I'm naturally a good person. I think some people have an innate goodness to them, and I am sort of proud of the fact that I kind of keep myself in check, probably because I have awesome parents. "
Gillian Flynn
Good
People
Parents
" 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
Me
" Because I'm a woman writing about women who do bad things, that's somehow very 'other.' When men write that, it's called a novel. It's just a book. "
Gillian Flynn
Writing
Woman
Bad
" I'm not hyper-opinionated, but when I do have an opinion, I'm very stubborn, and I want to persuade everyone to my point of view. "
Gillian Flynn
View
Opinion
Point Of View
" I love a good worst-case scenario. My brain just kind of works that way. I like that idea of how much a person can get away with, and why. "
Gillian Flynn
Good
Way
Kind