Quotes by Gillian Flynn

About Gillian Flynn:

Gillian Schieber Flynn is an American author, screenwriter, comic book writer and former television critic for Entertainment Weekly. Flynn's three published novels are the thrillers Sharp Objects, Dark Places, and Gone Girl, the latter which she adapted for the screen in the 2014 film of the same name directed by David Fincher.
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You're sexist. I'm so sick of liberal lefty men practicing sexual discrimination under the guide of protecting women against sexual discrimination.

Gillian Flynn

Sometimes I think illness sits inside every woman, waiting for the right moment to bloom. I have known so many sick women all my life. Women with chronic pain, with ever-gestating diseases. Women with conditions. Men, sure, they have bone snaps, they...

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I always feel sad for the girl that I was, because it never occurred to me that my mother might comfort me. She has never told me she loved me, and I never assumed she did. She tended to me. She administrated me.

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I regretted what a serious teenager I'd been: There were no posters of pop stars or favorite movies, no girlish collection of photos or corsages. Instead there were paintings of sailboats, proper pastel pastorals, a portrait of Eleanor Roosevelt. The...

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I was never really on my side in any argument. I liked the Old Testament spitefulness of the phrase Sometimes women do.

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I grew up in the '80s where there's a lot of these kind of post-apocalyptic, post-comet, post-whatever it was, so that always captured my imagination a lot as a little kid, that idea of getting access to secret places and being able to roam around wh...

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I'm all for whatever transitions the book properly to a movie.

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I have four or five ideas that just keep floating around and I want to kind of just let one - like a beautiful butterfly, let it land somewhere.

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I'm a true-crime addict. It's not something I'm particularly proud of, but I can't stop.

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There are no really new stories anymore.

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I think mystery writers and thriller writers - whatever genre you want to call it - are taking on some of the biggest, most interesting kind of socioeconomic issues around in a really interesting, compelling way.

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I feel like I need to give people a note with the book that says, 'I'm OK, no worries!'

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Things might not be great, but things would be okay.

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what are you thinking, Amy? How are you feeling? Who are you? What have we ddone to each other? What will we do?

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I know a little bit about trying to do the right thing and fucking up completely." I added. "You talking about mom?" Ben said "I was talking about me." "You could have been talking about all of us. Ben pressed his hand against the glass and my brothe...

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I’ve grown quite weary of the spunky heroines, brave rape victims, soul-searching fashionistas that stock so many books. I particularly mourn the lack of female villains — good, potent female villains. Not ill-tempered women who scheme about land...

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I can't think of anything more crushing than slowly, over time, realizing exactly how wrong you were about someone.

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To me, marriage is the ultimate mystery.

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We're into this barrage of pop culture - you know, TV, movies, the Internet. We become creatures that we've made up, made of certain different flotsam from pop culture and certain different personas that are in style.

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Author Bio

  • NameGillian Flynn
  • DescriptionAmerican author and critic
  • BornFebruary 24, 1971
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter
  • WorksDark Places; Gone Girl