636 Quotes by Gillian Flynn

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.

I could not have written a novel if I hadn't been a journalist first, because it taught me that there's no muse that's going to come down and bestow upon you the mood to write. You just have to do it. I'm definitely not precious.

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

I just think - the Midwest, if you grow up there, you're deathly afraid of putting on airs. Any time a Midwesterner criticizes someone, it's usually involving some form of being too big for your britches.

Ever since I was a child, I've been a huge comic and graphic novel fan, but I've never tried writing one before.

It seems like the darker the books are, the nicer the person is. People say it's the romance writers you've got to watch out for.

Some of the most disturbing, sick relationships I've witnessed are between long-time friends, and especially mothers and daughters.

Writing has certainly helped me explore about 20,000 versions of my authentic self. I suppose that's what most writers discover if they write long enough: there are a lot of selves roaming around in there.

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