Gillian Flynn — American Author

Gillian Schieber Flynn is an American author, screenwriter, comic book writer and former television critic for Entertainment Weekly. Flynn's three published novels are the thrillers Sharp Objects, Dark Places, and Gone Girl, the latter of which she adapted for the screen in the 2014 film of the same name directed by David Fincher... (wikipedia)

I can't think of anything more crushing than slowly, over time, realizing exactly how wrong you were about someone.
I'm a true-crime addict. It's not something I'm particularly proud of, but I can't stop.
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.
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.
I feel like I need to give people a note with the book that says, 'I'm OK, no worries!'