Justin Cronin Quotes

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• The military was all about hierarchies, who urinated highest on the hydrant
• Even on the darkest night, my friend, life will have its way.
• 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…
• One thing that worried me was how writers get categorized and so they end up having to write the same kind of book again and…
• You learn to write by reading, and my experiences and tastes as a reader are pretty wide.
• On a fading summer evening, late in the last hours of his old life, Peter Jaxon-son of Demetrius and Prudence Jaxon, First Family; descendent of…
• Behind every writer stands a very large bookshelf.
• 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.
• And I grew up on a steady diet of science fiction, especially apocalyptic and postapocalyptic fiction.
• And I had always liked vampire stories because they are great material that can be refashioned in lots of ways.
• Choosing writing as a career, just by itself, is a measure of not being a calculating person.
• I like creating villains.
• I like to break left when people think I'm going to go right.
• 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…
• I was a 'Planet of the Apes'-obsessed kid.
• I was very much a child of the Cold War.
• 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…
• One of the great themes in American literature is the individual's confrontation with the vast open spaces of the continent.
• Writers who pretend that everything they're doing is completely new are full of it.
• Writing is a job: you must show up.

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