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Gillian Flynn Quotes

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I do love 'The Turn of the Screw' - I just think that one's always so disturbing.

Love Think Always Turn Just Screw

I think everyone self-mythologizes.

Think Everyone I Think

I want books to give me insight into the way people's brains work and hearts work, and that's what engages me.

Work People Me Want Way Insight

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.

Me You Down Mood Write First

The midwest is great because it hasn't been entirely claimed. There's more room to write about it; it's harder to write about New York, because even if you've never been there, you think you know what it's like. To do it in any sort of fresh way is trickier.

Great New York Think You New Know

I get really tense during the first draft. Really tense. That's not great for my family, because the first draft usually takes about a year.

Family Great Year First Get Draft

I've seen movies that are slavishly devoted to books but don't work because they haven't turned it into a movie: they've turned it into a dramatisation of the different scenes.

Work Movies Seen Because Different

I like the idea that people who see 'Gone Girl' are possibly going to come out with incredibly different reactions to it - not just between men and women, but if you are in a good relationship or a bad relationship. Everyone is going to bring their own bundle of prejudices and viewpoints and experiences to it.

Good Women Girl Relationship Men

I love the way the Victorians found a way to put faces in everything: you know, furniture and marble and, you know, everywhere you turn around - the banister, you know, there's someone looking at you.

Love Looking Someone You Furniture

Being a novelist, you can roam around with a story and indulge yourself.

Yourself Story You Being Indulge

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

Child Writing Never Been Fan Tried

I would love to do a full-scale graphic novel.

Love Would Novel Graphic

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