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Justin Cronin

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 man

I was very much a child of the Cold War.

— Justin Cronin child

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 beauty

If you are writing any book about the end of the world, what you are really writing about is what's worth saving about it.

— Justin Cronin writing

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

— Justin Cronin time

When you write, you take the ball and you hold it up to the light and you turn it slowly, and let people draw their own conclusions. And try to bring empathy to all sides of the equation.

— Justin Cronin people

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

— Justin Cronin literature

One of the traps or the pitfalls of writing a trilogy - or a triptych, or whatever term you want to use - is that the second book can be a long second act to get you from book one to book three, which borrows all of its energy from the first book.

— Justin Cronin writing

Behind every writer stands a very large bookshelf.

— Justin Cronin books

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

— Justin Cronin writing

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 writer

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 writing

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 war

If you write a good action sequence well in a novel, you're already writing it for film, because the only way to do it well is to use some of the same tricks. They're rhetorical, not visual, but it's the same move.

— Justin Cronin writing

Vampires have always been hot. They are one of our most durable monsters. It's one of those stories that galvanizes us early and it's always going on.

— Justin Cronin stories

If you try to write 1,000 words a day, as I do, after 100 days you'll look up and have a book. It may be a mess, and you may have to revise it 50 times, but you can't revise it if you haven't written it.

— Justin Cronin time

One of the things I constantly think about as a writer is the way in which people are full of contradictions - there's all this contradictory information inside a human personality.

— Justin Cronin people

The future that I will not live to see is the one my children will live in. That's my immortality. And I shouldn't try to mortgage theirs for my benefit.

— Justin Cronin children

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 writing

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

— Justin Cronin reading

That literary-popular distinction is, in my view, vastly overstated. At the far poles there are clearly books that are purely commercial and purely literary, written for audiences that want to see the same thing enacted over and over and over again. But the middle is where most people read and most people write.

— Justin Cronin books

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

— Justin Cronin people

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 experience

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

— Justin Cronin

Writing is a job: you must show up.

— Justin Cronin you

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