Female violence is a specific brand of ferocity. It’s invasive. A girlfight is all teeth and hair, spit and nails – a much more fearsome thing to watch than two dudes clobbering each other. Gillian Flynn Read Quote
My dad was a film professor, so he would take me to wildly inappropriate movies. Gillian Flynn Read Quote
I love Robin Wright’s character in ‘House of Cards’ because she’s a bona fide villain. She’s a not-nice person in a believable way; you can see her working in the world. Gillian Flynn Read Quote
I am a great believer in jobs for teens. They teach important life lessons, build character, and inflict just the right amount of humiliation necessary for future success in the working world. Gillian Flynn Read Quote
My favorite game was one I invented with my cousins called Mean Aunt Rosie, where I was a deranged maiden aunt who chased them around the house. Gillian Flynn Read Quote
The number of mystery and horror writers I’ve met who are just the sanest and the nicest people… it’s crazy. Maybe it’s because the writing gets something out of the system? Gillian Flynn Read Quote
I was not a nice little girl. My favorite summertime hobby was stunning ants and feeding them to spiders. Gillian Flynn Read Quote
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. Gillian Flynn Read Quote
