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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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Dark Side
Time Men Women
Bad Men
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I love a good worst-case scenario. My brain just kind of works that way. I like that idea of how much a person can get away with, and why.
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Just Kind
Scenario
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I get really tense during the first draft. Really tense. That's not great for my family, because the first draft usually takes about a year.
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Tense
About A Year
Draft
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I think women do have that fatal streak to them that's partly because it's been romanticized, the martyr complex - 'Look what you did to me!'
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Martyr
Women Me Look
Streak
Complex
Fatal
Women Look Me
Partly
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I was very interested in what happens to the husband when his wife goes missing, and how quickly they can be turned into heroes and villains.
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Missing
Heroes
Villains
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I do spend - I feel like I spend about my first 20 minutes at any cocktail party convincing people that I'm not going to harm them in some way.
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Convincing
Harm
People Feel Way
Cocktail
People Way Feel
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I have four or five ideas that just keep floating around and I want to kind of just let one - like a beautiful butterfly, let it land somewhere.
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Beautiful
Butterfly
Floating
Land
Somewhere
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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.
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Aunt
Deranged
Rosie
Chased
Maiden
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Libraries are filled with stories on generations of brutal men, trapped in a cycle of aggression. I wanted to write about the violence of women.
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Brutal
Filled
Generations
Trapped
Men Women Violence
Cycle
Women Men Violence
Libraries
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What an indulgence it would be, to just blow off my head, all my mean spirits disappearing with a gun blast, like blowing a seedy dandelion apart.
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Blow
Mean
Suicidal
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Because I'm a woman writing about women who do bad things, that's somehow very 'other.' When men write that, it's called a novel. It's just a book.
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Women
Bad Things
Book
Novel
Writing
Men Women Woman
Bad
Woman
Women Men Bad
Somehow
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You drink a little too much and try a little too hard. And you go home to a cold bed and think, that was fine. And your life is a long line of fine.
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Home
Long
Thinking
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I'm a huge fan of ghost stories, that sort of slow build, the suspense and the questioning about whether you're imagining something or if it's real.
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Fans
Ghost Stories
Real
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I have a meanness inside me, real as an organ. Slit me at my belly and it might slide out, meaty and dark, drop on the floor so you could stomp on it.
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Dark
Might
Real
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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.
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Guilty
Popcorn
Equally
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A town so suffocating and small, you tripped over people you hated every day. People who knew things about you. It's the kind of place that leaves a mark.
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Kind
People
Towns
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Because isn’t that the point of every relationship: to be known by someone else, to be understood? He gets me. She gets me. Isn’t that the simple magic phrase?
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Magic
Phrases
Simple
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My dad had limitations. That's what my good-hearted mom always told us. He had limitations, but he meant no harm. It was kind of her to say, but he did do harm.
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Dad
Mom
Kind
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I like the discipline of writing a script. You can't go into the character's head - you have to find these creative ways to help externalize what they're thinking.
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Character
Thinking
Writing
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The first time my mom read my very first book, she was like, 'I'm not gonna belabor this. It's not a big deal. But I have to ask the question: Is everything okay?'
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Big Deal
First Time
Okay
Question
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It was surprising that you could spend hours in the middle of the night pretending things were OK, and know in thirty seconds of daylight that that simply wasn't so.
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Daylight
Hours
Night
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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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Tempting
Belong
Exercises
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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.
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Believable
Cards
House Of Cards
Villain
Love Character World
Bona
Bona Fide
Robin
Wright
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It’s a very difficult era in which to be a person, just a real, actual person, instead of a collection of personality traits selected from an endless Automat of characters.
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Character
Personality
Real
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My mother had always told her kids: if you're about to do something, and you want to know if it's a bad idea, imagine seeing it printed in the paper for all the world to see.
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Kids
Ideas
Mother
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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?
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Mystery
Nicest
Nicest People
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I've seen movies that are slavishly devoted to books but don't work because they haven't turned it into a movie: they've turned it into a dramatisation of the different scenes.
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Devoted
Books
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They always call depression the blues, but I would have been happy to waken to a periwinkle outlook. Depression to me is urine yellow, washed out, exhausted miles of weak piss.
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Exhausted
Weak
Yellow
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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.
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All Time
Rivers
Anne
Next Door
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There's nothing that can drive me from zero to crazy faster than a man who comes up to me and says, 'You know, I don't normally read books by women, but I really liked 'Gone Girl.''
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Zero
Faster
Women Man Me
Drive
Liked
Normally
Says
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I was not always someone who wanted to get married or thought I would get married, so being a true writer, I was always navel-gazing: 'What are good marriages? What are bad marriages?'
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Good Bad True
Get Married
Marriages
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I assumed that 'Gone Girl' would do incrementally better than 'Dark Places,' and that would be great. So the fact that it did more than that was kind of an incredibly pleasant surprise.
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Dark Places
Pleasant
Surprise
Assumed
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No one watches 'Taxi Driver' and says, 'Oh, it's a male-oriented film.' No one looks at nine-tenths of the films out there that are headlined by men and say, 'It's a male-oriented film.'
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Taxi
Watches
Driver
Nine-Tenths
Taxi Driver
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'Rosemary's Baby' is one of my all-time favorite books. I love that it just ends with, you know, 'Hey, the devil's in the world, and guess what? Mom kind of likes him!' And that's the end.
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All Time
Hey
Likes
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My first job had me miscast as a bubbly shopgirl; I was pathologically shy and, thus, tended to replace human speech with excessive head gestures. It was like being waited on by Harpo Marx.
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Gestures
Excessive
First Job
Marx
Replace
Thus
Waited
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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.
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Ferocity
Nails
Spit
Teeth
Dudes
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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.
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Believer
Future Success
Humiliation
Lessons
Teens
Life Success Future
Great Believer
Inflict
Life Lessons
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The skill set that lets you be alone in your pyjamas for two years writing a book is not the same skill set that lets you go on television shows like 'The View' or 'Late Night With Jimmy Fallon.'
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Jimmy
Television Shows
Lets
Skill
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I'm probably a guy's girl, although I hate that phrase. I tend to have more close male friends than I do female friends, and I always have. I would say that of my 10 close friends, seven are men.
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Close Friends
Male
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My first two novels featured narrators who were aggressively unattached: They couldn't form any sort of genuine relationship. So I had thoroughly explored the geography of loneliness and isolation.
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Genuine
Isolation
Loneliness
Explored
Featured
Thoroughly
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My imagination is more tweaked by imagining the lives of the people who were there before us. I don't need to give myself the willies. I'm quite good at that - I can freak myself out wherever I am.
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Imagination
Giving
People
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I think there is something very relatable in the idea that you hit a certain age, later in your life, where you realize you have to pick up the rug and see what's underneath it and deal with stuff.
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Age
Ideas
Thinking
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I think that women really entwine with the people that they become close to in a way that men don't - and so, when they are forced to disentwine, you can't remove the vines without doing some damage.
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Damage
Remove
Vines
Men Women People
Women Men People
Forced
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In college, I discovered the Joyce Carol Oates short story 'Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?' which is definitely one of the most incredibly unnerving, frightening short stories ever written.
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Frightening
Joyce
Carol
Short Stories
Unnerving
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I love the way the Victorians found a way to put faces in everything: you know, furniture and marble and, you know, everywhere you turn around - the banister, you know, there's someone looking at you.
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Faces
Furniture
Marble
Everywhere
Love Way Know
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I've never been interested in watching or reading anything because it's the hero's story. I don't feel the need to be inspired by the character or learn a lesson. I feel the need to be engaged by them.
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Engaged
Lesson
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I just think - the Midwest, if you grow up there, you're deathly afraid of putting on airs. Any time a Midwesterner criticizes someone, it's usually involving some form of being too big for your britches.
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Involving
Midwest
Criticizes
Deathly
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Writing has certainly helped me explore about 20,000 versions of my authentic self. I suppose that's what most writers discover if they write long enough: there are a lot of selves roaming around in there.
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Authentic Self
Roaming
Self
Versions
Enough Me Long
Authentic
Certainly
Enough Long Me
Discover
Writers
Explore
Helped
Suppose
Selves
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Women get consumed. Not surprising, considering the sheer amount of traffic a woman's body experiences. Tampons and speculums. Cocks, fingers, vibrators and more, between the legs, from behind, in the mouth.
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Body
Legs
Mouths
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I don't think I'm naturally a good person. I think some people have an innate goodness to them, and I am sort of proud of the fact that I kind of keep myself in check, probably because I have awesome parents.
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Good Person
Innate
Good Myself I Am
Awesome
Check
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