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Gillian Flynn Quotes

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

Women Play Kind Only Nurturing

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.

Women Time Men Bad Dark Goal

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.

Friend Journey Hero Best Me Feel

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.

Women Men Anger Me Violence Theme

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

Control Where Like Much Novel Thing

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

Person Interested Much Procedural

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.

Writing Book You Rules Try Never

I think it's a very female trait to want to please men and to want to be considered the Cool Girl. And if you take that to the farthest reach, where you're actually selling yourself out and degrading yourself by doing things you don't actually want to do, only in order for this man to think that you do, that's a very perverse thing.

Girl Men Man Yourself Cool Think

I liked the idea of a whodunit revolving around a marriage.

Marriage Idea Revolving Around Liked

Very quickly, I discovered I did not have what it takes to be a good crime reporter: I was too unassertive and a little bit wimpy. It was very clear that was not what I was going to do, but I loved journalism, and I'm the daughter of a film professor, and my mom taught reading.

Good Daughter Mom Reading Loved

I grew up in a house full of books.

House Up Books Full Grew

My interest is in turning over a rock and seeing what's underneath. It's a personality trait more than anything; it's what made me want to become a crime reporter, even though I was not suited for it personality-wise.

Personality Me Seeing Want Rock

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