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

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" 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. "

" There are no really new stories anymore. "

" I get really tense during the first draft. Really tense. That's not great for my family, because the first draft usually takes about a year. "

" I was very lucky to grow up in a household that really valued storytelling and didn't find it frivolous. "

" 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. "

" I watched 'Psycho' a million times. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" My first two novels featured narrators who were aggressively unattached: They couldn't form any sort of genuine relationship. So I had thoroughly explored the geography of loneliness and isolation. "

" I love Joyce Carol Oates. I love Margaret Atwood, T.C. Boyle. Arthur Phillips is always consistent. "

" I'm not much of a procedural person. That's not what I'm interested in. "

" I've always had a fondness for the Gothic. That's what kind of stories attract me: Why do people do bad things? "

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

" 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. "

" I'm all for whatever transitions the book properly to a movie. "

" I think that women really entwine with the people that they become close to in a way that men don't - and so, when they are forced to disentwine, you can't remove the vines without doing some damage. "

" I spent a lot of - too much of - my childhood watching movies and thinking about movies. "

" 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. "

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

" What I read and what I go to the movies for is not to find a best friend, not to find inspirations, not necessarily for a hero's journey. It's to be involved with characters that are maybe incredibly different from me, that may be incredibly bad but that feel authentic. "

" For me, suspense is always harder and better than going for the quick, outright scare. "

" That's always been part of my goal - to show the dark side of women. Men write about bad men all the time, and they're called antiheroes. "

" I had been laid off from 'Entertainment Weekly 'right before I started writing 'Gone Girl.' "

" 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. "

" Writing has certainly helped me explore about 20,000 versions of my authentic self. I suppose that's what most writers discover if they write long enough: there are a lot of selves roaming around in there. "

" I like westerns, fantasy, sci-fi, graphic novels, thrillers, and I try to avoid the word 'genre' altogether. A good book is a good book. "

" It's important to tell stories, and it's a worthwhile thing to do. "

" 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. "