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 a true-crime addict. It's not something I'm particularly proud of, but I can't stop.
The truly frightening flaw in humanity is our capacity for cruelty - we all have it.
I'm all for whatever transitions the book properly to a movie.
To me, marriage is the ultimate mystery.
We're into this barrage of pop culture - you know, TV, movies, the Internet. We become creatures that we've made up, made of certain different flotsam from pop culture and certain different personas that are in style.
I've always believed clear-eyed sobriety was for the harder hearted.
There are a million talented writers who are unpublished only because they stop writing when it gets hard.
I assumed everything bad in the world could happen, because everything bad in the world already did happen.
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.
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.
Love should require both partners to be their very best at all times
There's no app for a bourbon buzz on a warm day in a cool, dark bar. The world will always want a drink.
Coffee goes great with sudden death.