Quotes By Gillian Flynn

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 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.

I have four or five ideas that just keep floating around and I want to kind of just let one - like a beautiful butterfly, let it land somewhere.

I'm all for whatever transitions the book properly to a movie.

To me, marriage is the ultimate mystery.

I'm a true-crime addict. It's not something I'm particularly proud of, but I can't stop.

I feel like I need to give people a note with the book that says, 'I'm OK, no worries!'

There are no really new stories anymore.

I think mystery writers and thriller writers - whatever genre you want to call it - are taking on some of the biggest, most interesting kind of socioeconomic issues around in a really interesting, compelling way.

I can't think of anything more crushing than slowly, over time, realizing exactly how wrong you were about someone.