54 Gillian Flynn Quotes for You to Enjoy

Gillian Flynn

American Author

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I watched 'Psycho' a million times. Gillian Flynn

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There's nothing lovelier than having a newborn and still plotting a dark conspiracy. 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

I think women are very ambidextrous. We don't think twice about reading a book or a movie starring guys. But for guys, it's, like, 'Oh my God, that's a woman thing.' So with my son, I very carefully portion out the female heroes and characters to make sure he's getting an equal amount. Gillian Flynn

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

Addict Something Particularly Proud Stop

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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Women are just as violently minded as men are, but with men, it's taken for granted. Gillian Flynn

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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 where you're not supposed to. Gillian Flynn

There are no really new stories anymore. Gillian Flynn

New Anymore Stories Really

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. Gillian Flynn

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

Book People Worries OK Says Give Feel Like Note Need

I always loved scary movies, and my dad was a film professor. Gillian Flynn

Scary Scary Movies Always Loved Movies Dad Film Professor

As a kid in the eighties, I didn't need much disposable income. I went to Catholic school - white shirt, plaid skirt - so fashion choices were limited. But youth finds a way. For me and my schoolmates, neon argyle socks were a crucial barometer of coolness. Hair ribbons, too, and they didn't come cheap. Gillian Flynn

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My first job had me miscast as a bubbly shopgirl; I was pathologically shy and, thus, tended to replace human speech with excessive head gestures. It was like being waited on by Harpo Marx. Gillian Flynn

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Female violence is a specific brand of ferocity. It's invasive. A girlfight is all teeth and hair, spit and nails - a much more fearsome thing to watch than two dudes clobbering each other. Gillian Flynn

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People focus on the darker female characters in my books, but for every one of those, I can also show you an equally screwed up man that no one ever comments about, or a nicer woman that no one comments about. I don't feel like that's my specialty. Gillian Flynn

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My dad was a film professor, so he would take me to wildly inappropriate movies. Gillian Flynn

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Kansas City is truly an awesome town. Gillian Flynn

Awesome City Town Truly Kansas Kansas City

I was a quirky kid. I think that's the kind way of putting it. Gillian Flynn

Think Way Kid Kind Putting Quirky

I read all kinds of novels, as long as they're good. Gillian Flynn

Good Long Kinds Read Novels

What I read and what I go to the movies for is not to find a best friend, not to find inspirations, not necessarily for a hero's journey. It's to be involved with characters that are maybe incredibly different from me, that may be incredibly bad but that feel authentic. 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 tempting. You try to shoehorn things that don't belong. Gillian Flynn

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