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" 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. "

Gillian Flynn

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Gillian Flynn

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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.'' "

" 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 spent a lot of - too much of - my childhood watching movies and thinking about movies. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I think everyone self-mythologizes. "

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

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

" I just think - the Midwest, if you grow up there, you're deathly afraid of putting on airs. Any time a Midwesterner criticizes someone, it's usually involving some form of being too big for your britches. "

" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" 'Rosemary's Baby' is one of my all-time favorite books. I love that it just ends with, you know, 'Hey, the devil's in the world, and guess what? Mom kind of likes him!' And that's the end. "

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

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