Writer Quotes by Gillian Flynn

I grew up in a house full of books.

— Gillian Flynn

I love Joyce Carol Oates. I love Margaret Atwood, T.C. Boyle. Arthur Phillips is always consistent.

— Gillian Flynn

There are so many good books, I don't want to only read within one particular type.

— Gillian Flynn

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

There are a million talented writers who are unpublished only because they stop writing when it gets hard.

— Gillian Flynn

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

“But I wasn't a well-read bookworm; I was just a dumb whore in the right library.”

— Gillian Flynn

“I would rather be a librarian, but I worry about the job security. Books may be temporary; dicks are forever.”

— Gillian Flynn

“I mean I would rather be a librarian but I worry about the job security, books may be temporary dicks are forever.”

— Gillian Flynn

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

The skill set that lets you be alone in your pyjamas for two years writing a book is not the same skill…

— Gillian Flynn

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

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

“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

“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

“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

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

“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

“I am smiling a big adopted-orphan smile as I write this ... I still love scribbling the word - WRITER - any…

— Gillian Flynn

“Guess what Jeff found in his cabin for me," Grete says, "another book by the Martian Chronicle guy." "Ray Bradburrow", Jeff says.…

— Gillian Flynn

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

“For Gone Girl, I knew Nick and Amy had to be very believable, so I made ipod playlists for them, and knew…

— Gillian Flynn

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