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" 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. "

Gillian Flynn

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" Very quickly, I discovered I did not have what it takes to be a good crime reporter: I was too unassertive and a little bit wimpy. It was very clear that was not what I was going to do, but I loved journalism, and I'm the daughter of a film professor, and my mom taught reading. "

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

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" 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. "

" I think everyone self-mythologizes. "

" I was a quirky kid. I think that's the kind way of putting it. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

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

" 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. "

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

" I think women are very ambidextrous. We don't think twice about reading a book or a movie starring guys. But for guys, it's, like, 'Oh my God, that's a woman thing.' So with my son, I very carefully portion out the female heroes and characters to make sure he's getting an equal amount. "

" 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.' "

" To me, marriage is the ultimate mystery. "

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" 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. "

" 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 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 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. "

" 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 feel like I need to give people a note with the book that says, 'I'm OK, no worries!' "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" There's nothing that can drive me from zero to crazy faster than a man who comes up to me and says, 'You know, I don't normally read books by women, but I really liked 'Gone Girl.'' "