My imagination is more tweaked by imagining the lives of the people who were there before us. I don't need to give… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
A town so suffocating and small, you tripped over people you hated every day. People who knew things about you. It's the… — 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
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
I find, the older I get, the more surprised I am about how hesitant people are to say what they really want,… — 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
People love talking, and I have never been a huge talker. I carry on an inner monologue, but the words often don't… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
I do spend - I feel like I spend about my first 20 minutes at any cocktail party convincing people that I'm… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
I feel like I need to give people a note with the book that says, 'I'm OK, no worries!' — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
Everytime people said I was pretty, I thought of everything ugly swarming beneath my clothes. — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“Sometimes if you let people do things to you, you're really doing it to them.” — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
My brain goes very easily into the darkness. It always has. There are people who like to see what's under the rock… — 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
People say children from broken homes have it hard, but the children of charmed marriages have their own particular challenges. — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
You don't normally see incredibly ugly people who've gone missing and it becomes a sensation. — 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've always had a fondness for the Gothic. That's what kind of stories attract me: Why do people do bad things? — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“I was pretending, the way I often did, pretending to have a personality. I cant help it, it's what I've always done:… — 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
“I don't feel like a person at all: I am something to be loaded and unloaded, like a sofa or a cuckoo… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
Ironic people always dissolve when confronted with earnestness, it's their kryptonite — 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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
There’s something disturbing about recalling a warm memory and feeling utterly cold. — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“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 Image
What a generous thing that is, I realize, for a husband to try to make his wife laugh. — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
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 Image
“you'd literally lie, cheat, and steal -hell, kill- to convince people you are a good guy” — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
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 Image
