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" I've always read in order to figure out people more, and that includes bad people and good people. "
Gillian Flynn
Good
Good People
People
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" 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!' "
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Because
" 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. "
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Women
" 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.'' "
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Man
Women
" I'm all for whatever transitions the book properly to a movie. "
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Movie
Properly
Whatever
" 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. "
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Kind
Kid
Imagination
" To me, marriage is the ultimate mystery. "
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Ultimate
Me
Mystery
" 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. "
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Different
Work
Because
" As a kid in the eighties, I didn't need much disposable income. I went to Catholic school - white shirt, plaid skirt - so fashion choices were limited. But youth finds a way. For me and my schoolmates, neon argyle socks were a crucial barometer of coolness. Hair ribbons, too, and they didn't come cheap. "
Gillian Flynn
Youth
Hair
Choices
" I have four or five ideas that just keep floating around and I want to kind of just let one - like a beautiful butterfly, let it land somewhere. "
Gillian Flynn
Want
Beautiful
Butterfly
" I was very lucky to grow up in a household that really valued storytelling and didn't find it frivolous. "
Gillian Flynn
Grow Up
Find
Grow
" 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
Me
" I mostly go under the radar, which is fantastic because I would not be a good famous person. "
Gillian Flynn
Good
Go
Famous
" 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.' "
Gillian Flynn
Looks
Watches
Men
" 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. "
Gillian Flynn
Two
Watch
Violence
" In marriage, it's best to keep perspective. Get out of your head and get some perspective. "
Gillian Flynn
Perspective
Head
Best
" A theme that has always interested me is how women express anger, how women express violence. That is very much part of who women are, and it's so unaddressed. A vast amount of literature deals with cycles of violence about men, antiheroes. Women lack that vocabulary. "
Gillian Flynn
Always
Anger
Men
" I was not a nice little girl. My favorite summertime hobby was stunning ants and feeding them to spiders. "
Gillian Flynn
Hobby
Little
Nice
" 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. "
Gillian Flynn
You
Interesting
Kind
" 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. "
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Write
Women
Violence
" Books and movies are kind of my two great loves. I don't have too many other actual hobbies. That's pretty much it. "
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Great
Two
Pretty
" 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? "
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Mystery
People
Writing
" People focus on the darker female characters in my books, but for every one of those, I can also show you an equally screwed up man that no one ever comments about, or a nicer woman that no one comments about. I don't feel like that's my specialty. "
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Woman
People
Man
" 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. "
Gillian Flynn
Way
Love
Know
" 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?' "
Gillian Flynn
Question
She
Book
" 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. "
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Think
House
Great
" 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.' "
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You
Writing
Night
" I read all kinds of novels, as long as they're good. "
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Novels
Good
Kinds
" I always loved ghost stories and haunted house stories, whether they were done in a fantasy way or done in a realistic way. "
Gillian Flynn
Loved
Done
Fantasy
" Ever since I was a child, I've been a huge comic and graphic novel fan, but I've never tried writing one before. "
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Never
Child
Before