636 Quotes by Gillian Flynn

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

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.

A really great popcorn movie is extremely hard to pull off. A really great popcorn book is equally hard to pull off, so I don't feel guilty devouring one.

A great thriller, to me, is more about creating a sense of unease: a queasiness that comes with knowing something is not quite right.

Women shouldn't be expected to only play nurturing, kind caretakers.

That's always been part of my goal - to show the dark side of women. Men write about bad men all the time, and they're called antiheroes.

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.

As much as I really like the screenwriting thing, the novel is where the author has so much control.

I'm not much of a procedural person. That's not what I'm interested in.