Gillian Flynn

The funny thing, I guess, is that my husband ended up being the muse of a book about the worst marriage in the world, because if he hadn't consistently said, 'Don't censor yourself, don't worry about me' - if he'd been anxious and worried about it - then it would never have gotten written. ”

Rosemary's Baby' is one of my all-time favorite books. I love that it just ends with, you know, 'Hey, the devil's in the world, and guess what? Mom kind of likes him!' And that's the end. ”

Some of the most disturbing, sick relationships I've witnessed are between long-time friends, and especially mothers and daughters. ”

I love 'Fatal Attraction.' ”

Books and movies are kind of my two great loves. I don't have too many other actual hobbies. That's pretty much it. ”

My first two novels featured narrators who were aggressively unattached: They couldn't form any sort of genuine relationship. So I had thoroughly explored the geography of loneliness and isolation. ”

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

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. ”

I've always had a fondness for the Gothic. That's what kind of stories attract me: Why do people do bad things? ”

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. ”