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A really great popcorn movie is extremely hard to pull off. A really great popcorn book is equally hard to pull off, so I don't feel guilty devouring one.

~Gillian Flynn

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Women shouldn't be expected to only play nurturing, kind caretakers.

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That's always been part of my goal - to show the dark side of women. Men write about bad men all the time, and they're called antiheroes.

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What I read and what I go to the movies for is not to find a best friend, not to find inspirations, not necessarily for a hero's journey. It's to be involved with characters that are maybe incredibly different from me, that may be incredibly bad but that feel authentic.

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A theme that has always interested me is how women express anger, how women express violence. That is very much part of who women are, and it's so unaddressed. A vast amount of literature deals with cycles of violence about men, antiheroes. Women lack that vocabulary.

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As much as I really like the screenwriting thing, the novel is where the author has so much control.

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I'm not much of a procedural person. That's not what I'm interested in.

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One of my rules about writing exercises is you never are allowed to put them in your book because it's just too tempting. You try to shoehorn things that don't belong.

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I love video games.

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I think it's a very female trait to want to please men and to want to be considered the Cool Girl. And if you take that to the farthest reach, where you're actually selling yourself out and degrading yourself by doing things you don't actually want to do, only in order for this man to think that you do, that's a very perverse thing.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: Unknown

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