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My favorite game was one I invented with my cousins called Mean Aunt Rosie, where I was a deranged maiden aunt who chased them around the house. - Gillian Flynn
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I am a great believer in jobs for teens. They teach important life lessons, build character, and inflict just the right amount of humiliation necessary for future success in the working world. - Gillian Flynn
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As much as I really like the screenwriting thing, the novel is where the author has so much control. - Gillian Flynn
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Libraries are filled with stories on generations of brutal men, trapped in a cycle of aggression. I wanted to write about the violence of women. - Gillian Flynn
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I like westerns, fantasy, sci-fi, graphic novels, thrillers, and I try to avoid the word 'genre' altogether. A good book is a good book. - Gillian Flynn
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In college, I discovered the Joyce Carol Oates short story 'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?' which is definitely one of the most incredibly unnerving, frightening short stories ever written. - Gillian Flynn
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My first two novels featured narrators who were aggressively unattached: They couldn't form any sort of genuine relationship. So I had thoroughly explored the geography of loneliness and isolation. - Gillian Flynn
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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
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I watched 'Psycho' a million times. - Gillian Flynn
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I don't think I'm naturally a good person. I think some people have an innate goodness to them, and I am sort of proud of the fact that I kind of keep myself in check, probably because I have awesome parents. - Gillian Flynn
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I love Joyce Carol Oates. I love Margaret Atwood, T.C. Boyle. Arthur Phillips is always consistent. - Gillian Flynn
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You don't normally see incredibly ugly people who've gone missing and it becomes a sensation. - Gillian Flynn
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For me, suspense is always harder and better than going for the quick, outright scare. - Gillian Flynn
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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. - Gillian Flynn
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A theme that has always interested me is how women express anger, how women express violence. That is very much part of who women are, and it's so unaddressed. A vast amount of literature deals with cycles of violence about men, antiheroes. Women lack that vocabulary. - Gillian Flynn
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