Gillian Flynn Quotes

• Sometimes I think I won’t ever feel safe until I can count my last days on one hand.

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• I never knew I was capable of being ridiculous over a man. It’s a relief.

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• Love makes you want to be a better man–right, right. But maybe love, real love, also gives you permission to just be the man you are.

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• I don’t understand the point of being together if you’re not the happiest.

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• One should never marry a man who doesn’t own a decent pair of scissors.

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

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• To me, marriage is the ultimate mystery.

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• We’re into this barrage of pop culture – you know, TV, movies, the Internet. We become creatures that we’ve made up, made of certain different flotsam from pop culture and certain different personas that are in style.

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

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• There are no really new stories anymore.

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

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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.

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• I’m all for whatever transitions the book properly to a movie.

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• 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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Birth:	24th February, 1971
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Novelist, Screenwriter

About

Gillian Schieber Flynn was born in Kansas City, Missouri, USA. She is an American novelist, screenwriter, comic book writer, and former television critic for Entertainment Weekly. She received her undergraduate degrees in English and journalism from University of Kansas. She earned a master's degree at Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University in 1997. She adapted for the screen in the 2014 film Gone Girl directed by David Fincher. She has written three novels include: Sharp Objects(Edgar Award finalist), Dark Places, and Gone Girl(Nominated for both the Edgar Award and the Anthony Award for Best Novel). She has written other books include: The Grownup(Edgar Award-winning short story) and Rogues(with George R. R. Martin). She collaborated with illustrator Dave Gibbons and wrote a comic book story called Masks.

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