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

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

" My dad was a film professor, so he would take me to wildly inappropriate movies. "

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

" '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 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 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. "

" For me, suspense is always harder and better than going for the quick, outright scare. "

" I don't think I'm naturally a good person. I think some people have an innate goodness to them, and I am sort of proud of the fact that I kind of keep myself in check, probably because I have awesome parents. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I had been laid off from 'Entertainment Weekly 'right before I started writing 'Gone Girl.' "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I was not always someone who wanted to get married or thought I would get married, so being a true writer, I was always navel-gazing: 'What are good marriages? What are bad marriages?' "

" 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 think everyone self-mythologizes. "

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

" 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?' "

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

" I could not have written a novel if I hadn't been a journalist first, because it taught me that there's no muse that's going to come down and bestow upon you the mood to write. You just have to do it. I'm definitely not precious. "

" 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. "

" You don't normally see incredibly ugly people who've gone missing and it becomes a sensation. "

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

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

" 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. "

" As much as I really like the screenwriting thing, the novel is where the author has so much control. "

" 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. "