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" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

Taken For Granted

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

" There's nothing lovelier than having a newborn and still plotting a dark conspiracy. "

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

" I watched 'Psycho' a million times. "

" I love 'Fatal Attraction.' "

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

" No one watches 'Taxi Driver' and says, 'Oh, it's a male-oriented film.' No one looks at nine-tenths of the films out there that are headlined by men and say, 'It's a male-oriented film.' "

" 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 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" The number of mystery and horror writers I've met who are just the sanest and the nicest people... it's crazy. Maybe it's because the writing gets something out of the system? "

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