I was always someone who wanted to write. I was a real shy, bookworm-ish kid, and I think my earliest stuff was… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
I love Joyce Carol Oates. I love Margaret Atwood, T.C. Boyle. Arthur Phillips is always consistent. — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
There are so many good books, I don't want to only read within one particular type. — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
I want books to give me insight into the way people's brains work and hearts work, and that's what engages me. — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
There are a million talented writers who are unpublished only because they stop writing when it gets hard. — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“I mean I would rather be a librarian but I worry about the job security, books may be temporary dicks are forever.” — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“I would rather be a librarian, but I worry about the job security. Books may be temporary; dicks are forever.” — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“But I wasn't a well-read bookworm; I was just a dumb whore in the right library.” — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
The first time my mom read my very first book, she was like, 'I'm not gonna belabor this. It's not a big… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“It’s good.’ She chirps the last bit as if that were all to say about a book: It’s good or it’s bad.… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
The number of mystery and horror writers I've met who are just the sanest and the nicest people... it's crazy. Maybe it's… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
The skill set that lets you be alone in your pyjamas for two years writing a book is not the same skill… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
Writing has certainly helped me explore about 20,000 versions of my authentic self. I suppose that's what most writers discover if they… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
One of my rules about writing exercises is you never are allowed to put them in your book because it's just too… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“Writers (my kind of writers: aspiring novelists, ruminative thinkers, people whose brains don't work quick enough to blog or link or tweet,… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“I read all kinds of novels, as long as they’re good. I get a bit piqued when people say, 'I don’t really… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“When people ask me that question that everyone asks: "What do you do?" I'd say, "I'm in customer service," which was true.… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“I am smiling a big adopted-orphan smile as I write this ... I still love scribbling the word - WRITER - any… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“Guess what Jeff found in his cabin for me," Grete says, "another book by the Martian Chronicle guy." "Ray Bradburrow", Jeff says.… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
I've always been a mystery fan. My very first grown-up book, I distinctly remember going to the library and my mom helping… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“For Gone Girl, I knew Nick and Amy had to be very believable, so I made ipod playlists for them, and knew… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
I could not have written a novel if I hadn't been a journalist first, because it taught me that there's no muse… — 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
