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" 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. "

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" 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. "

Gillian Flynn

Character

Reading

Story

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

" It seems like the darker the books are, the nicer the person is. People say it's the romance writers you've got to watch out for. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

Gillian Flynn

Things

Dark

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

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

" 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

" I would love to do a full-scale graphic novel. "

" The skill set that lets you be alone in your pyjamas for two years writing a book is not the same skill set that lets you go on television shows like 'The View' or 'Late Night With Jimmy Fallon.' "

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

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

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

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

" Women are just as violently minded as men are, but with men, it's taken for granted. "

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

" 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. "

" I like the idea that people who see 'Gone Girl' are possibly going to come out with incredibly different reactions to it - not just between men and women, but if you are in a good relationship or a bad relationship. Everyone is going to bring their own bundle of prejudices and viewpoints and experiences to it. "

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

" 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. "

" You have to be pretty selfless to have a child, who doesn't give a lot back to you. "

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

" My interest is in turning over a rock and seeing what's underneath. It's a personality trait more than anything; it's what made me want to become a crime reporter, even though I was not suited for it personality-wise. "

" 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've seen movies that are slavishly devoted to books but don't work because they haven't turned it into a movie: they've turned it into a dramatisation of the different scenes. "