Gillian Flynn Quotes

In 1996, after 29 years as an artist for Marvel Comics, I got fired - 56 years old, two children still in college, and no job.

Getting fired is hard.

I have been made redundant before and it is a terrible blow; redundant is a rotten word because it makes you think you are useless.

Sometimes I wish I could get fired.

I was made redundant from a job as a PA in a shirt-making company in 1996. I was devastated. I had been there for three years, and it was a job I really liked.

Writing was something I always liked, but it wasn't a career until I was laid off from my executive position in my 30s. I started a website because I was bored, unemployed and angry.

Many people have asked me how I feel about losing my job.

Getting fired was always a big deal to me. It's a bit like having someone break up with you.

I started out here in Colorado as a geologist. During a downturn, everyone in our company got laid off.

I got fired from Neiman Marcus and Bergdorfs, and JC Penney didn't work out.

The experience of seeing your entire team made redundant is eye-opening.

I got fired from WWE and it felt like our lives got turned upside down.

My first real job lasted for three years. It ended the day I was unceremoniously fired.

A journalist is a reporter out of a job.

'Goon Squad' took about three years to write and that's the short end. My second novel, 'Look at Me,' took six years.

I started blogging in 2006 when I had sold my first novel but it had not yet been published, in those anxious months in between while I learned the whole process.

I actually got fired from 'The O.C.'

Losing your job is terrifying, but being prepared makes it so much easier.

I was fired from my television job, simple as that. Well, downsized, really, a classic 1990s situation.

I couldn't really experience being an author when I was still working in publishing - I was trying to negotiate being both. Sometimes the knowledge doesn't translate between the two roles.

There's nothing wrong with being fired.

Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.

For a lot of people, becoming an author is a change in occupation... they are coming from something that totally has nothing to do with this. If they are expecting to come into a room full of people praising them, then they are in the wrong place.

I hate being out of work!

If you've got to get fired, it's really fabulous to get fired with a friend.