Gillian Flynn
Gillian Flynn
Gillian Schieber Flynnis an American author, screenwriter, comic book writer and former television critic for Entertainment Weekly. Flynn's three published novels are the thrillers Sharp Objects, Dark Places, and Gone Girl, the latter of which she adapted for the screen in the 2014 film of the same name directed by David Fincher...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth24 February 1971
CityKansas City, MO
CountryUnited States of America
I'm not someone who can be depended one five days a week. Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday? I don't even get out of bed five days in a row-I often don't remember to eat five days in a row. Reporting to a workplace, where I should need to stay for eight hours-eight big hours outside my home- was unfeasible.
Love should require both partners to be their very best at all times
Coffee goes great with sudden death.
I was pretending, the way I often did, pretending to have a personality. I can't help it, it's what I've always done: The way some women change fashion regularly, I change personalities. What persona feels good, what's coveted, what's au courant? I think most people do this, they just don't admit it, or else they settle on one persona because they are too lazy or stupid to pull a switch.
There's no app for a bourbon buzz on a warm day in a cool, dark bar. The world will always want a drink.
I assumed everything bad in the world could happen, because everything bad in the world already did happen.
The truly frightening flaw in humanity is our capacity for cruelty - we all have it.
The worst feeling: when you just have to wait and prepare yourself for the lie.
What a generous thing that is, I realize, for a husband to try to make his wife laugh.
Tampon commercial, detergent commercial, maxi pad commercial, windex commercial - you'd think all women do is clean and bleed.
Sometimes I think I won't ever feel safe until I can count my last days on one hand.
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.
There are a million talented writers who are unpublished only because they stop writing when it gets hard.
Most beautiful, good things were done by women people scorn.