Gillian Flynn : (9)

" I’m not much of a procedural person. That’s not what I’m interested in. " - Gillian Flynn

" I’m probably a guy’s girl, although I hate that phrase. I tend to have more close male friends than I do female friends, and I always have. I would say that of my 10 close friends, seven are men. " - Gillian Flynn

" I’ve always been a mystery fan. My very first grown-up book, I distinctly remember going to the library and my mom helping me pick out an Agatha Christie book. I was in fifth grade or something and very proud of being in the adult fiction aisles. I tore through ‘The Mysterious Affair at Styles.’ " - Gillian Flynn

" For me, suspense is always harder and better than going for the quick, outright scare. " - Gillian Flynn

" I can’t think of anything more crushing than slowly, over time, realizing exactly how wrong you were about someone. " - Gillian Flynn

" My first job had me miscast as a bubbly shopgirl; I was pathologically shy and, thus, tended to replace human speech with excessive head gestures. It was like being waited on by Harpo Marx. " - Gillian Flynn

" In marriage, it’s best to keep perspective. Get out of your head and get some perspective. " - Gillian Flynn

" Because I’m a woman writing about women who do bad things, that’s somehow very ‘other.’ When men write that, it’s called a novel. It’s just a book. " - Gillian Flynn

" 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. " - Gillian Flynn