“I want books to give me insight into the way people's brains work and ...” — Gillian Flynn Quote

I want books to give me insight into the way people's brains work and hearts work, and that's what engages me.

The old Amy, the girl of the big laugh and the easy ways, literally shed herself, a pile of skin and soul on the floor, and stepped this new, brittle, bitter Amy ... a razor-wire knot daring me to unloop her, and I was not up to the job with my thick, numb, nervous fingers. Country fingers. Flyover fingers untrained in the intricate, dangerous work of 'solving Amy'. When I'd hold up the bloody stumps, she'd sigh and turn to her secret mental notebooks on which she tallied all my deficiencies, forever noting disappointments, frailties, shortcomings.

I liked the idea of a whodunit revolving around a marriage.

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.

Our brains are like bonsai trees, growing around our private versions of reality.

I've obviously got the brains. I've got the cardio.

We are making a little portion of their brains be sprinters; they are 100 percent football players, but for these purposes, they must learn the proper way to run.

It's like I have three different brains.

I think more from my heart. My brains don't work as much.