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" I tend to write about dark things that happen in a very domestic setting 'cause that, to me, is much scarier than the unknown. "

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

" 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. "

" There are no really new stories anymore. "

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

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

" 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 think everyone self-mythologizes. "

" 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 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. "

" You don't normally see incredibly ugly people who've gone missing and it becomes a sensation. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" I can't think of anything more crushing than slowly, over time, realizing exactly how wrong you were about someone. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" My favorite game was one I invented with my cousins called Mean Aunt Rosie, where I was a deranged maiden aunt who chased them around the house. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" There are so many good books, I don't want to only read within one particular type. "

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

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

" I always loved scary movies, and my dad was a film professor. "