Justin Cronin

Writing is a job: you must show up.

— Justin Cronin

I like creating villains.

— Justin Cronin

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

— Justin Cronin

“so sad she couldn’t even cry.”

— Justin Cronin

“That was always the hardest part, missing you.”

— Justin Cronin

“I could have held his hand.”

— Justin Cronin

“He has to come to it on his own.”

— Justin Cronin

I was very much a child of the Cold War.

— Justin Cronin

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

— Justin Cronin

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

— Justin Cronin

“The things of your life arrived in their own time, like a train you had to catch.”

— Justin Cronin

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

— Justin Cronin

“The floor was slick with oil, the blood of the earth, time’s distillate, compressed by a planet.”

— Justin Cronin

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

— Justin Cronin

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

— Justin Cronin

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

— Justin Cronin

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

— Justin Cronin

I came to Houston for a job, the reason most people move halfway across the country with a first grader and a…

— Justin Cronin

There's an outline for each of the books that I adhere to pretty closely, but I'm not averse to taking it in…

— Justin Cronin

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

— Justin Cronin

“Zander was always sneaking off to the library to get more books ... Guy would read anything. Said books were more interesting…

— Justin Cronin

“This isn't a question of odds. Of all the men in the world, that woman hose you. If she's still out there,…

— Justin Cronin

“His son's transformation cannot be stopped, or hastened, or adjusted; the man he will become is already present, like a form emerging…

— Justin Cronin

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

“Does anybody out there care? Are we worth saving? What would God want from me, if there is a God? The greatest…

— Justin Cronin

“[...]and yet wasn't there something about [vampires] that struck a deep chord of recognition, even of memory? The teeth, the blood, the…

— Justin Cronin

It was possible, he understood, for a person's life to become just a long series of mistakes, and that the end, when…

— Justin Cronin

“There was a term he knew and thought of now; he had heard it used only in the context of aviation, to…

— Justin Cronin

There was something in the pages of these books that had the power to make him feel better about things, a life…

— Justin Cronin

“Wolgast recalled when he’d come down here with his friends to buy candy and comic books. Back then, a spinning wire rack…

— Justin Cronin

“She stood beside me for years, or was it a moment? I cannot remember. Maybe I loved her, Maybe I didn't. There…

— Justin Cronin

“This isn't a question of odds. Of all the men in the world, that woman chose you. If she's out there, she's…

— Justin Cronin

“Special Agent Brad Wolgast hated Texas. He hated everything about it. [...] He hated the billboards and the freeways and the faceless…

— Justin Cronin

“Selecting doterra essential oils signifies picking a product which has been gently and carefully distilled from natural plants, that have been harvested…

— Justin Cronin

“In silence he lifted her into his arms, cradling her like a child, and Lacey thought that it was God Himself, come…

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“It was more than physical attraction; it was the broken thing inside him she loved most of all, the unreachable place where…

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“But I suppose it's part of being old to feel that way, half in one world and half in the other, all…

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“Arthur laughs at his son’s embarrassment, though he also knows that this is exactly the kind of thing he likes about her.…

— Justin Cronin

“That was the hardest part, missing you. I think that's why I could never bring myself to leave. I always thought, What…

— Justin Cronin

“Consider the species known as man. We lie, we cheat, we want what others have and take it; we make war upon…

— Justin Cronin