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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Peter held up the book he had been reading: 'Moby-Dick; or, The Whale'. "To tell you the truth, I'm not even sure… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
One of the traps or the pitfalls of writing a trilogy - or a triptych, or whatever term you want to use… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
“How strange it was..., one minute you were all alone with your thoughts, the next somebody came along who seemed to know… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
Every book has got its challenges. You run into a plot point that you can't figure out, or a scene that you… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
If you try to write 1,000 words a day, as I do, after 100 days you'll look up and have a book.… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
That literary-popular distinction is, in my view, vastly overstated. At the far poles there are clearly books that are purely commercial and… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
If you are writing any book about the end of the world, what you are really writing about is what's worth saving… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There was something in the pages of these books that had the power to make him feel better about things, a life… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
One thing that worried me was how writers get categorized and so they end up having to write the same kind of… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
“The greatest faith is the willingness to ask in the first place, all evidence to the contrary. Faith not just in God, but in… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
“They say that the moment your life appears before your eyes will be your last, but I'm here to say that it's not so… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
“It was more than physical attraction; it was the broken thing inside him she loved most of all, the unreachable place where he kept… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
It's different being afraid when there's the hope it will amount to something. — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
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… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
“There was a term he knew and thought of now; he had heard it used only in the context of aviation, to explain how,… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
“His father had always said, Son, the most important thing in life is to make a contribution. Who would have thought Kittridge’s contribution would… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
It was what you did, Wolgast understood; you started to tell a story about who you were, and soon enough the lies were all… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
“This isn't a question of odds. Of all the men in the world, that woman hose you. If she's still out there, she's waiting… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
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… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
And indeed, I am a warmhearted and thoroughly domestic man who gets up and makes pancakes for his children and kisses them on the… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
