That's always been part of my goal - to show the dark side of women. Men write about bad men all the… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“He wears his cockiness like an ironic T-shirt, but it fits him better.” — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
Give me a man with a little fight in him, a man who calls me on my bullshit. (But who also kind… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
Women are just as violently minded as men are, but with men, it's taken for granted. — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
Love makes you want to be a better man. But maybe love, real love, also gives you permission to just be the… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
Because I'm a woman writing about women who do bad things, that's somehow very 'other.' When men write that, it's called a… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
People focus on the darker female characters in my books, but for every one of those, I can also show you an… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
A theme that has always interested me is how women express anger, how women express violence. That is very much part of… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
No one watches 'Taxi Driver' and says, 'Oh, it's a male-oriented film.' No one looks at nine-tenths of the films out there… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
Libraries are filled with stories on generations of brutal men, trapped in a cycle of aggression. I wanted to write about the… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
I think that women really entwine with the people that they become close to in a way that men don't - and… — 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 waited patiently - years - for the pendulum to swing the other way, for men to start reading Jane Austen, learn… — 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
Sometimes I think illness sits inside every woman, waiting for the right moment to bloom. I have known so many sick women… — 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
