“I was always someone who wanted to write. I was a real shy, bookworm-i...” — Gillian Flynn Quote

“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.”

“There's a book by Anne Rivers Siddons called 'The House Next Door' that I just think is one of the all-time great haunted-house stories. I think that's one of the all-time greatest.”

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

“My earliest interest in game design came when I was in primary school, and my parents bought a Commodore 128 computer. I taught myself to write programs in BASIC, and then I made my own games.”

“My earliest memory is trying to read Beatrix Potter, and the words were literally jumping off the page.”

“Before I proposed to my now-wife, I was understandably nervous. My father suggested that I take stock of all of my experiences and relationships with women, from my earliest memories to present day, and see if I had learned anything that might inform my decision.”