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- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Ghost Stories
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always loved ghost stories and haunted house stories, whether they were done in a fantasy way or done in a realistic way.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even good characters have their dark sides, and I think it is important that women aren't seen as innately good.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not someone who has hobbies. I have tried knitting, and I can't figure it out.
- Mystery
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- Nov 07, 2020
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?
- Charging
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- Nov 07, 2020
The best crime reporters don't mind charging in - but they also know how to do it as decent human beings.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in the '80s where there's a lot of these kind of post-apocalyptic, post-comet, post-whatever it was, so that always captured my imagination a lot as a little kid, that idea of getting access to secret places and being able to roam around where you're not supposed to.
- Butterfly
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Proud
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a true-crime addict. It's not something I'm particularly proud of, but I can't stop.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are no really new stories anymore.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't think of anything more crushing than slowly, over time, realizing exactly how wrong you were about someone.
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're into this barrage of pop culture - you know, TV, movies, the Internet. We become creatures that we've made up, made of certain different flotsam from pop culture and certain different personas that are in style.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me, marriage is the ultimate mystery.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel like I need to give people a note with the book that says, 'I'm OK, no worries!'
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always loved scary movies, and my dad was a film professor.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Dark
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's nothing lovelier than having a newborn and still plotting a dark conspiracy.
- Husband
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Bad
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- Nov 07, 2020
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?'
- Hair
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a kid in the eighties, I didn't need much disposable income. I went to Catholic school - white shirt, plaid skirt - so fashion choices were limited. But youth finds a way. For me and my schoolmates, neon argyle socks were a crucial barometer of coolness. Hair ribbons, too, and they didn't come cheap.
- Future Success
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Feeding
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was not a nice little girl. My favorite summertime hobby was stunning ants and feeding them to spiders.
- Fearsome
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some of the most disturbing, sick relationships I've witnessed are between long-time friends, and especially mothers and daughters.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The funny thing, I guess, is that my husband ended up being the muse of a book about the worst marriage in the world, because if he hadn't consistently said, 'Don't censor yourself, don't worry about me' - if he'd been anxious and worried about it - then it would never have gotten written.
- Psycho
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- Nov 07, 2020
I watched 'Psycho' a million times.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020
People focus on the darker female characters in my books, but for every one of those, I can also show you an equally screwed up man that no one ever comments about, or a nicer woman that no one comments about. I don't feel like that's my specialty.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.'
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.''
- Industry
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- Nov 07, 2020
The newspaper industry was built on the penny dreadfuls.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Women are just as violently minded as men are, but with men, it's taken for granted.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tend to write about dark things that happen in a very domestic setting 'cause that, to me, is much scarier than the unknown.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
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?'
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
Kansas City is truly an awesome town.
- College
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Kinds
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- Nov 07, 2020
I read all kinds of novels, as long as they're good.
- Fantasy
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
A great thriller, to me, is more about creating a sense of unease: a queasiness that comes with knowing something is not quite right.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Hero
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I read and what I go to the movies for is not to find a best friend, not to find inspirations, not necessarily for a hero's journey. It's to be involved with characters that are maybe incredibly different from me, that may be incredibly bad but that feel authentic.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
As much as I really like the screenwriting thing, the novel is where the author has so much control.
- Nov 07, 2020
You don't normally see incredibly ugly people who've gone missing and it becomes a sensation.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Cool
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's a very female trait to want to please men and to want to be considered the Cool Girl. And if you take that to the farthest reach, where you're actually selling yourself out and degrading yourself by doing things you don't actually want to do, only in order for this man to think that you do, that's a very perverse thing.
- Idea
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- Nov 07, 2020
I liked the idea of a whodunit revolving around a marriage.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Very quickly, I discovered I did not have what it takes to be a good crime reporter: I was too unassertive and a little bit wimpy. It was very clear that was not what I was going to do, but I loved journalism, and I'm the daughter of a film professor, and my mom taught reading.
- Full
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in a house full of books.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My interest is in turning over a rock and seeing what's underneath. It's a personality trait more than anything; it's what made me want to become a crime reporter, even though I was not suited for it personality-wise.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020