Gillian Flynn Quotes

At the typewriter you find out who you are.

I want to challenge people to find out who they are.

One of my problems is to find the self.

And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me.

'Days Before Rodeo' is just the journey of me finding out who I am.

When we're growing up there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be.

And so, I think when I got to college, you discover who you are and find yourself more than you did before.

I'm all for awkward, frank, sometimes painful conversations about things that give everyone a better perspective on who they are in the here and now, and how they want to proceed from there.

I'm not interested in nostalgia; I'm interested in who I am.

What you are is a question only you can answer.

One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.

I've been through so much of my own self-search that I'm not as consumed with who I am as I used to be.

Everything we know by heart enriches us and helps us find ourselves. If it should get in the way of finding ourselves, it is because we have no personality.

If you asked me for my New Year Resolution, it would be to find out who I am.

The real rub is finding that authentic self and it's not something that's going to come to you overnight.

I think that we're all continually searching for who we are, and that's ever-evolving and changing.

I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think, is that you really must make the self.

I'm not crazy. But I am different. I'm still learning about myself.

I don't know if I'd say I feel green, but I'm getting to know myself as an actor now in a way that I never did as a kid.

It's amazing what you find out about yourself when you write in the first person about someone very different from you.

No single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born. It would be a bit too easy if we could go about borrowing ready-made souls.

I want to reclaim who I am.

I think a lot of Magnum was me.

You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.

I think your self emerges more clearly over time.