There's nothing lovelier than having a newborn and still plotting a dark conspiracy.

Women are just as violently minded as men are, but with men, it's taken for granted.

There’s something disturbing about recalling a warm memory and feeling utterly cold.

Ironic people always dissolve when confronted with earnestness, it's their kryptonite

What a generous thing that is, I realize, for a husband to try to make his wife laugh.

For me, suspense is always harder and better than going for the quick, outright scare.

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

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

She released her grievances like handfuls of birdseed: They are there, and they are gone.

I had been laid off from 'Entertainment Weekly 'right before I started writing 'Gone Girl.'

I mostly go under the radar, which is fantastic because I would not be a good famous person.

Everytime people said I was pretty, I thought of everything ugly swarming beneath my clothes.

You don't normally see incredibly ugly people who've gone missing and it becomes a sensation.

Don't be discouraged - every relationship you have is a failure, until you find the right one.

I just think some women aren't made to be mothers. And some women aren't made to be daughters.

I've always read in order to figure out people more, and that includes bad people and good people.

I love Joyce Carol Oates. I love Margaret Atwood, T.C. Boyle. Arthur Phillips is always consistent.

Ah, well, being conflicted means you can live a shallow life without copping to be a shallow person.

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

There's no app for a bourbon buzz on a warm day in a cool, dark bar. The world will always want a drink.

I was very lucky to grow up in a household that really valued storytelling and didn't find it frivolous.

The best crime reporters don't mind charging in - but they also know how to do it as decent human beings.

I was not a nice little girl. My favorite summertime hobby was stunning ants and feeding them to spiders.

I'd come to believe there was no food more depressing than Danish, a pastry that seemed stale upon arrival

There are a million talented writers who are unpublished only because they stop writing when it gets hard.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 want books to give me insight into the way people's brains work and hearts work, and that's what engages me.

She’s easy to like. I’ve never understood why that’s considered a compliment - that just anyone could like you.

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

Ever since I was a child, I've been a huge comic and graphic novel fan, but I've never tried writing one before.

Even good characters have their dark sides, and I think it is important that women aren't seen as innately good.

And if all of us are play-acting, there can be no such thing as a soul mate, because we don't have genuine souls.

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

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

He was one of those guys who'd pronounce I'm a hugger as he came at you, neglecting to ask if the feeling was mutual.

Give me a man with a little fight in him, a man who calls me on my bullshit. (But who also kind of likes my bullshit.)

Love makes you want to be a better man. But maybe love, real love, also gives you permission to just be the man you are.

I always loved ghost stories and haunted house stories, whether they were done in a fantasy way or done in a realistic way.

I was always someone who wanted to write. I was a real shy, bookworm-ish kid, and I think my earliest stuff was fairly dark.

Tampon commercial, detergent commercial, maxi pad commercial, windex commercial - you'd think all women do is clean and bleed.

I tend to write about dark things that happen in a very domestic setting 'cause that, to me, is much scarier than the unknown.

I've always been partial to the image of liquor as lubrication, a layer of protection from all the sharp thoughts in your head.

People say children from broken homes have it hard, but the children of charmed marriages have their own particular challenges.

People love talking, and I have never been a huge talker. I carry on an inner monologue, but the words often don't reach my lips.

It seems like the darker the books are, the nicer the person is. People say it's the romance writers you've got to watch out for.

I'm not hyper-opinionated, but when I do have an opinion, I'm very stubborn, and I want to persuade everyone to my point of view.

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

I was not a lovable child, and I'd grown into a deeply unlovable adult. Draw a picture of my soul, and it'd be a scribble with fangs.

A great thriller, to me, is more about creating a sense of unease: a queasiness that comes with knowing something is not quite right.

I like westerns, fantasy, sci-fi, graphic novels, thrillers, and I try to avoid the word 'genre' altogether. A good book is a good book.

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