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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.
Gillian Flynn
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I've always had a fondness for the Gothic. That's what kind of stories attract me: Why do people do bad things?
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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.
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'Rosemary's Baby' is one of my all-time favorite books. I love that it just ends with, you know, 'Hey, the devil's in the world, and guess what? Mom kind of likes him!' And that's the end.
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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.
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I'm all for whatever transitions the book properly to a movie.
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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 can't think of anything more crushing than slowly, over time, realizing exactly how wrong you were about someone.
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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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To me, marriage is the ultimate mystery.
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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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