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
Dark sides are important. They should be nurtured like nasty black orchids.
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.
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 was raised feral, and I mostly stayed that way.
My dad had limitations. That's what my good-hearted mom always told us. He had limitations, but he meant no harm. It was kind of her to say, but he did do harm.
Everytime people said I was pretty, I thought of everything ugly swarming beneath my clothes.
I would have done anything to feel real again.
Ironic people always dissolve when confronted with earnestness, it's their kryptonite
I've always been partial to the image of liquor as lubrication, a layer of protection from all the sharp thoughts in your head.
It's impossible to compete with the dead. I wished I could stop trying.
To spend a life in dreams, that sounded too lovely.