“They pictured themselves dashing around Manhattan, latte in one hand, cell phone in the other, adorably breaking a designer heel while hailing… — Gillian Flynn Cell phone 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 Books 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 Character Copy Share Image
I think women are very ambidextrous. We don't think twice about reading a book or a movie starring guys. But for guys,… — Gillian Flynn Ambidextrous Copy Share Image
“Can you imagine, finally showing your true self to your spouse, your soul mate, and having him not like you? So that's… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
It’s a very difficult era in which to be a person, just a real, actual person, instead of a collection of personality… — Gillian Flynn Character Copy Share Image
“It took this awful situation for us to realize it. Nick and I fit together. I am a little too much, and… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
My mother had always told her kids: if you're about to do something, and you want to know if it's a bad… — Gillian Flynn Bad idea 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
“The kid looked at me as if I’d just told a joke about his mother. ‘I don’t know, Mr Dunne, I’m sure… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“Winter. No one likes winter.” “It gets dark early, I like that.” “Why?” Because that means the day has ended. I like… — Gillian Flynn Flower Copy Share Image
“Downstairs, I could hear the return of a long-lost sound: Amy making breakfast. Banging wooden cupboards (rump-thump!), rattling containers of tin and… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“You just want an excuse to stay,’ she whispered. ‘You two, you’re fucking addicted to each other. You are literally going to… — Gillian Flynn Family Copy Share Image
“We were the first human beings who would never see anything for the first time. We stare at the wonders of the… — 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
“In truth, I wanted her to read my mind so I didn’t have to stoop to the womanly art of articulation. I… — Gillian Flynn Art 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 Writer Copy Share Image
I think there is something very relatable in the idea that you hit a certain age, later in your life, where you… — Gillian Flynn Age 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
“We are all overdressed in our little flashy frocks, our slasher heels, and we all eat small plates of food bites that… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“Three minutes, so I turned on the radio and of course it was a Tom Petty song—is there ever a time you… — Gillian Flynn Song Copy Share Image
“I'm here, I said, and it felt shockingly comforting, those words. When I'm panicked, I say them aloud to myself. I'm here.… — Gillian Flynn Comforting words Copy Share Image
“Sometimes he felt like he'd been gone his whole life--in exile, away from the place he was supposed to be, and that,… — Gillian Flynn Exile Copy Share Image
We're into this barrage of pop culture - you know, TV, movies, the Internet. We become creatures that we've made up, made… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“And sometimes drunk women aren't raped; they just make stupid choices--and to say we deserve special treatment when we're drunk because we're… — Gillian Flynn Drunk Copy Share Image
“Never leave a message for someone you really want to reach. No, you keep phoning and phoning until someone picks up—out of… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“All this time I'd thought we were strangers, and it turned out we knew each other intuitively, in our bones, in our… — Gillian Flynn Love 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
“I have a meanness inside me, real as an organ. Slit me at my belly and it might slide out, meaty and… — 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
“Nick and I, we sometimes laugh, laugh out loud, at the horrible things women make their husbands do to prove their love.… — Gillian Flynn Husbands Copy Share Image
“I am overachieving at aimlessness, I am a type-A, alpha-girl lollygagger, the leader of a gang of heartbroken kids, running wild across… — Gillian Flynn Betrayal Copy Share Image
“Because you can't be as in love as we were and not have it invade your bone marrow. Our kind of love… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“I don’t know anyone’s name. If one of those women died, I couldn’t even say, “Poor old Mrs. Zalinsky died.” I’d have… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
I love the way the Victorians found a way to put faces in everything: you know, furniture and marble and, you know,… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“You are not dating a woman, you are dating a woman who has watched too many movies written by socially awkward men… — Gillian Flynn Dating Copy Share Image
“The good stuff in me I got from my mom. I can joke, I can laugh, I can tease, I can celebrate… — Gillian Flynn Mother Copy Share Image
“but fact is, it’s been years since I even really liked someone. So how likely is it I’ll meet someone I love,… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
Female violence is a specific brand of ferocity. It's invasive. A girlfight is all teeth and hair, spit and nails - a… — Gillian Flynn Hair Copy Share Image
I've wondered if 'Harry Potter' would have been as big if it was 'Harriet Potter.' Now that I've written a screenplay -… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
