“To show don’t tell and all that other writery crap. (Adopted-orphan” — 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There are a million talented writers who are unpublished only because they stop writing when it gets hard.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 had been laid off from 'Entertainment Weekly 'right before I started writing 'Gone Girl.' — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
Ever since I was a child, I've been a huge comic and graphic novel fan, but I've never tried writing one before. — 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
“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
It seems like the darker the books are, the nicer the person is. People say it's the romance writers you've got to… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
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
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
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
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
“New York was packed with writers, real writers, because there were magazines, real magazines, loads of them. This was back when the… — 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
“The one plentiful herds of magazine writers would continue to be culled - by the Internet, by the recession, by the American… — 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 am a cutter, you see. Also a snipper, a slicer, a carver, a jabber. I am a very special case. I… — 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
“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
“Every phrase had to be captured on paper or it wasn't real, it slipped away. I'd see the words hanging in midair--Camille,… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
I was not always someone who wanted to get married or thought I would get married, so being a true writer, I… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“She chirps the last bit as if that were all to say about a book: It’s good or it’s bad. I liked… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
I like the discipline of writing a script. You can't go into the character's head - you have to find these creative… — 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
I think mystery writers and thriller writers - whatever genre you want to call it - are taking on some of the… — 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
