Quotes About Gillian Flynn

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.

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 always loved scary movies, and my dad was a film professor.

One of my rules about writing exercises is you never are allowed to put them in your book because it's just too tempting. You try to shoehorn things that don't belong.

Some of the most disturbing, sick relationships I've witnessed are between long-time friends, and especially mothers and daughters.

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

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 was the embodiment of every writer's worst fear: a cliché.

She blew more smoke toward me, a lazy game of cancer catch.

He has a great smile, a cat's smile. He should cough out yellow Tweety Bird feathers, the way he smiles at me.

Danish. I'd come to believe there was no food more depressing than Danish, a pastry that seemed stale upon arrival.

Should I remove my soul before I come inside?

I would rather be a librarian, but I worry about the job security. Books may be temporary; dicks are forever.

If ifs and buts were candies and nuts we'd all have a very Merry Christmas

It's an insane, insane crime, a lot of it isn't going to make sense. That's why people are so obsessed with these murders. If they made any sense, they wouldn't really be mysteries, right?

So let everyone take sides. Team Nick, Team Amy. Turn it into even more of a game: Sell some fucking T-shirts.

I would never steer a fellow sufferer from the relief of a blackout.

I blame my mother. A child weaned on poison considers harm a comfort.

When people ask me that question that everyone asks: What do you do? I'd say, I'm in customer service, which was true. To me, it's nice day's work when you make a lot of people smile. I know that sounds too earnest, but it's true. I mean, I would rather be a librarian, but I worry about the job security. Books may be temporary; dicks are forever.

My story would satisfy Desi's craving for ruined women -- I was now the most damaged of them all.

It embarrassed me. Marrow-deep embarrassment, the kind that becomes part of your DNA, that changes you.

My story for the day was a limp sort of evil.

Era la encarnación del peor temor de cualquier escritor: un cliché

So you can see why the whole hand-job thing felt like a natural career progression.