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Justin Cronin Quotes: "Behind every writer stands a very large bookshelf."

Behind every writer stands a very large bookshelf.



Justin Cronin Quotes: "My inventing time is all done under the influence of aerobic exercise. Basically, I do all my thinking while I run."

My inventing time is all done under the influence of aerobic exercise. Basically, I do all my thinking while I run.




Justin Cronin Quotes: "I grew up during the Cold War, when everything seemed very tenuous. For many years, right up until the fall of the Berlin Wall, I had vivid nightmares of nuclear apocalypse."

I grew up during the Cold War, when everything seemed very tenuous. For many years, right up until the fall of the Berlin Wall, I had vivid nightmares of nuclear apocalypse.



Justin Cronin Quotes: "We live, we die. Somewhere along the way, if we're lucky, we may find someone to help lighten the load."

We live, we die. Somewhere along the way, if we're lucky, we may find someone to help lighten the load.




Justin Cronin Quotes: "This ravishing world. This achingly bittersweet, ravishing world."

This ravishing world. This achingly bittersweet, ravishing world.



Justin Cronin Quotes: "I have any number of completely dark obsessions and fascinations, and none of this was present in my profile or my growing profile as a writer."

I have any number of completely dark obsessions and fascinations, and none of this was present in my profile or my growing profile as a writer.



Justin Cronin Quotes: "What strange places our lives can carry us to, what dark passages."

What strange places our lives can carry us to, what dark passages.




Justin Cronin Quotes: "My theory of characterization is basically this: Put some dirt on a hero, and put some sunshine on the villain, one brush stroke of beauty on the villain."

My theory of characterization is basically this: Put some dirt on a hero, and put some sunshine on the villain, one brush stroke of beauty on the villain.



Justin Cronin Quotes: "Even on the darkest night, my friend, life will have its way."

Even on the darkest night, my friend, life will have its way.



Justin Cronin Quotes: "My rule has always been, write the next part of the book that you seem to know well. So I won't necessarily write chapter two after chapter one."

My rule has always been, write the next part of the book that you seem to know well. So I won't necessarily write chapter two after chapter one.



Justin Cronin Quotes: "And indeed, I am a warmhearted and thoroughly domestic man who gets up and makes pancakes for his children and kisses them on the head when he sends them off to their day."

And indeed, I am a warmhearted and thoroughly domestic man who gets up and makes pancakes for his children and kisses them on the head when he sends them off to their day.



Justin Cronin Quotes: "It happened fast. Thirty-two minutes for one world to die, another to be born."

It happened fast. Thirty-two minutes for one world to die, another to be born.




Justin Cronin Quotes: "Because that's what heaven is...it's opening the door of a house in twilight and everyone you love is there."

Because that's what heaven is...it's opening the door of a house in twilight and everyone you love is there.



Justin Cronin Quotes: "Miles away from everthing and everyone I've ever known or loved. I feel as if I've entered a new era of my life. What strange places our lives carry us to."

Miles away from everthing and everyone I've ever known or loved. I feel as if I've entered a new era of my life. What strange places our lives carry us to.



Justin Cronin Quotes: "I'm an ecumenical reader, grew up with all sorts of fiction, teach writing, went to the Iowa Writers' Workshop, so my tastes and interests are broad."

I'm an ecumenical reader, grew up with all sorts of fiction, teach writing, went to the Iowa Writers' Workshop, so my tastes and interests are broad.



Justin Cronin Quotes: "One of the great themes in American literature is the individual's confrontation with the vast open spaces of the continent."

One of the great themes in American literature is the individual's confrontation with the vast open spaces of the continent.



Justin Cronin Quotes: "And I grew up on a steady diet of science fiction, especially apocalyptic and postapocalyptic fiction."

And I grew up on a steady diet of science fiction, especially apocalyptic and postapocalyptic fiction.



Justin Cronin Quotes: "The military was all about hierarchies, who urinated highest on the hydrant"

The military was all about hierarchies, who urinated highest on the hydrant



Justin Cronin Quotes: "Real courage is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. Doing the unpopular thing because it's what you believe, and the heck with everybody."

Real courage is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. Doing the unpopular thing because it's what you believe, and the heck with everybody.



Justin Cronin Quotes: "There's an outline for each of the books that I adhere to pretty closely, but I'm not averse to taking it in a new direction, as long as I can get it back to where I need it to go."

There's an outline for each of the books that I adhere to pretty closely, but I'm not averse to taking it in a new direction, as long as I can get it back to where I need it to go.



Justin Cronin Quotes: "I came to Houston for a job, the reason most people move halfway across the country with a first grader and a five-week-old. I came here to teach at Rice."

I came to Houston for a job, the reason most people move halfway across the country with a first grader and a five-week-old. I came here to teach at Rice.



Justin Cronin Quotes: "I like to break left when people think I'm going to go right."

I like to break left when people think I'm going to go right.



Justin Cronin Quotes: "Writers who pretend that everything they're doing is completely new are full of it."

Writers who pretend that everything they're doing is completely new are full of it.



Justin Cronin Quotes: "Writing is a job: you must show up."

Writing is a job: you must show up.



Justin Cronin Quotes: "If asked to name the worst moment of his life, Michael Fisher wouldn't have hesitated to give his answer: it was when the lights went out."

If asked to name the worst moment of his life, Michael Fisher wouldn't have hesitated to give his answer: it was when the lights went out.



Justin Cronin Quotes: "Every book has got its challenges. You run into a plot point that you can't figure out, or a scene that you struggle to write and have to write 50 times."

Every book has got its challenges. You run into a plot point that you can't figure out, or a scene that you struggle to write and have to write 50 times.



Justin Cronin Quotes: "I tend to start at 9 o'clock in the morning and write until 3. Those are my best hours. They fit the other rhythms of the world. So I write for six hours, pretty much without any breaks."

I tend to start at 9 o'clock in the morning and write until 3. Those are my best hours. They fit the other rhythms of the world. So I write for six hours, pretty much without any breaks.



Justin Cronin Quotes: "Choosing writing as a career, just by itself, is a measure of not being a calculating person."

Choosing writing as a career, just by itself, is a measure of not being a calculating person.



Justin Cronin Quotes: "Kittredge had obviously misjudged her, but he had learned that was the way with most people. The story was never the story, and it surprised you, how much another person could carry."

Kittredge had obviously misjudged her, but he had learned that was the way with most people. The story was never the story, and it surprised you, how much another person could carry.



Justin Cronin Quotes: "You learn to write by reading, and my experiences and tastes as a reader are pretty wide."

You learn to write by reading, and my experiences and tastes as a reader are pretty wide.



Justin Cronin Quotes: "And I had always liked vampire stories because they are great material that can be refashioned in lots of ways."

And I had always liked vampire stories because they are great material that can be refashioned in lots of ways.



Justin Cronin Quotes: "I was very much a child of the Cold War."

I was very much a child of the Cold War.



Justin Cronin Quotes: "It had never occurred to her that God would cry, but of course that was wrong. God would be crying all the time. He would cry and cry and never stop."

It had never occurred to her that God would cry, but of course that was wrong. God would be crying all the time. He would cry and cry and never stop.



Justin Cronin Quotes: "It was what you did, Wolgast understood; you started to tell a story about who you were, and soon enough the lies were all you had and you became that person."

It was what you did, Wolgast understood; you started to tell a story about who you were, and soon enough the lies were all you had and you became that person.



Justin Cronin Quotes: "The world was a world of dreaming souls who could not die."

The world was a world of dreaming souls who could not die.



Justin Cronin Quotes: "He breathed once more, holding the air in his chest, as if it were not air but something more--a sweet taste of freedom, of all cares lifted, everything over and done."

He breathed once more, holding the air in his chest, as if it were not air but something more--a sweet taste of freedom, of all cares lifted, everything over and done.



Justin Cronin Quotes: "I saw my one purpose in that moment, looking into that little girls eyes. I was the one who was meant to save her, that was my one purpose all this time."

I saw my one purpose in that moment, looking into that little girls eyes. I was the one who was meant to save her, that was my one purpose all this time.



Justin Cronin Quotes: "So, whenever I'm writing, I'm writing in the presence of all the other books I've read and I think we all are."

So, whenever I'm writing, I'm writing in the presence of all the other books I've read and I think we all are.



Justin Cronin Quotes: "I like creating villains."

I like creating villains.



Justin Cronin Quotes: "I think many years ago I got on a bus in L.A. and drove around to see the stars' homes, but that's the extent of my direct experience in Hollywood."

I think many years ago I got on a bus in L.A. and drove around to see the stars' homes, but that's the extent of my direct experience in Hollywood.



Justin Cronin Quotes: "I'm still an English professor at Rice University here in Houston. They've been very generous in letting me on a very long leash to just work on 'The Passage' and its sequels."

I'm still an English professor at Rice University here in Houston. They've been very generous in letting me on a very long leash to just work on 'The Passage' and its sequels.



Justin Cronin Quotes: "I was a 'Planet of the Apes'-obsessed kid."

I was a 'Planet of the Apes'-obsessed kid.



Justin Cronin Quotes: "The fact is, there's a great deal of hair-splitting fussiness when it comes to fly-fishing, most of it as silly as a top hat."

The fact is, there's a great deal of hair-splitting fussiness when it comes to fly-fishing, most of it as silly as a top hat.



Justin Cronin Quotes: "Before she became the Girl from Nowhere-the One Who Walked In, the First and Last and Only, who lived a thousand years-she was just a little girl in Iowa, named Amy. Amy Harper Bellafonte."

Before she became the Girl from Nowhere-the One Who Walked In, the First and Last and Only, who lived a thousand years-she was just a little girl in Iowa, named Amy. Amy Harper Bellafonte.



Justin Cronin Quotes: "She remembered no one at all. She remembered one day thinking: I am alone. There is no I but I. She lived in the dark. She taught herself to walk in the light, though it was not easy."

She remembered no one at all. She remembered one day thinking: I am alone. There is no I but I. She lived in the dark. She taught herself to walk in the light, though it was not easy.



Justin Cronin Quotes: "The sadness you feel is not your own. It's his sadness you feel in your heart, Amy, for missing you."

The sadness you feel is not your own. It's his sadness you feel in your heart, Amy, for missing you.



Justin Cronin Quotes: "It's different being afraid when there's the hope it will amount to something."

It's different being afraid when there's the hope it will amount to something.



Justin Cronin Quotes: "As long as we remember a person, they're not really gone. Their thoughts, their feelings, their memories, they become a part of us."

As long as we remember a person, they're not really gone. Their thoughts, their feelings, their memories, they become a part of us.



Justin Cronin Quotes: "So perhaps the greatest worry of all was that one day you would realize that all the worries of your life amounted to one thing: the desire to just stop worrying."

So perhaps the greatest worry of all was that one day you would realize that all the worries of your life amounted to one thing: the desire to just stop worrying.