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

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

" 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. "

" I am not someone who has hobbies. I have tried knitting, and I can't figure it out. "

" Female violence is a specific brand of ferocity. It's invasive. A girlfight is all teeth and hair, spit and nails - a much more fearsome thing to watch than two dudes clobbering each other. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'm a true-crime addict. It's not something I'm particularly proud of, but I can't stop. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I've always been a mystery fan. My very first grown-up book, I distinctly remember going to the library and my mom helping me pick out an Agatha Christie book. I was in fifth grade or something and very proud of being in the adult fiction aisles. I tore through 'The Mysterious Affair at Styles.' "

" I think women do have that fatal streak to them that's partly because it's been romanticized, the martyr complex - 'Look what you did to me!' "

" 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. "

" I grew up in a house full of books. "

" Being a novelist, you can roam around with a story and indulge yourself. "

" I always loved ghost stories and haunted house stories, whether they were done in a fantasy way or done in a realistic way. "

" I am a great believer in jobs for teens. They teach important life lessons, build character, and inflict just the right amount of humiliation necessary for future success in the working world. "

" 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. "

" I've always read in order to figure out people more, and that includes bad people and good people. "

" To me, marriage is the ultimate mystery. "

" 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. "

" Ever since I was a child, I've been a huge comic and graphic novel fan, but I've never tried writing one before. "

" 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?' "

" Even good characters have their dark sides, and I think it is important that women aren't seen as innately good. "

" I think it's a very female trait to want to please men and to want to be considered the Cool Girl. And if you take that to the farthest reach, where you're actually selling yourself out and degrading yourself by doing things you don't actually want to do, only in order for this man to think that you do, that's a very perverse thing. "

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

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