I had been laid off from 'Entertainment Weekly 'right before I started writing 'Gone Girl.' — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
I was not a nice little girl. My favorite summertime hobby was stunning ants and feeding them to spiders. — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
I assumed that 'Gone Girl' would do incrementally better than 'Dark Places,' and that would be great. So the fact that it… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
What I tell myself is that there is never going to be another 'Gone Girl' for me. I mean, I really believe… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
There's nothing that can drive me from zero to crazy faster than a man who comes up to me and says, 'You… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
I'm probably a guy's girl, although I hate that phrase. I tend to have more close male friends than I do female… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
I think it's a very female trait to want to please men and to want to be considered the Cool Girl. And… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
One of my biggest peeves is when the writer hasn't given you enough information to figure everything out. You should be able… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
I like the idea that people who see 'Gone Girl' are possibly going to come out with incredibly different reactions to it… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“Our kind of love can go into remission, but it's always waiting to return. Like the world sweetest cancer.” — Gillian Flynn Copy Share
The midwest is great because it hasn't been entirely claimed. There's more room to write about it; it's harder to write about New York,… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share
“My thank-yous always come out rather labored. I often don't give them at all. People do what they're supposed to do and then wait… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share
There’s something disturbing about recalling a warm memory and feeling utterly cold. — Gillian Flynn Copy Share
“The Victorians, especially southern Victorians, needed a lot of room to stray away from each other, to duck tuberculosis and flu, to avoid rapacious… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share
What a generous thing that is, I realize, for a husband to try to make his wife laugh. — Gillian Flynn Copy Share
I am a great believer in jobs for teens. They teach important life lessons, build character, and inflict just the right amount of humiliation… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share
“you'd literally lie, cheat, and steal -hell, kill- to convince people you are a good guy” — Gillian Flynn Copy Share
My imagination is more tweaked by imagining the lives of the people who were there before us. I don't need to give myself the… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share
“Given my druthers now, I’d prefer a snapshot of Warren Harding’s wife, “the Duchess,” who recorded the smallest offenses in a little red notebook… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share
A town so suffocating and small, you tripped over people you hated every day. People who knew things about you. It's the kind of… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share
“For a long time Cool Girl offended me. I used to see men - friends, coworkers, strangers - giddy over these awful pretender women,… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share
