Best 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… Apocalypse
- I'm a workmanlike writer. I show up every day and treat it like a job. The old rule that writing is like any other job,… Any
- 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… Been
- 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… Action
- 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,… Adhere
- 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. Any
- 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… All
- 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… Any
- 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… All
- My inventing time is all done under the influence of aerobic exercise. Basically, I do all my thinking while I run. Aerobic
- 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. Believe
- What strange places our lives can carry us to, what dark passages. Carry
- In her mind's eye she saw it, saw it all at last: the rolling armies and the flames of battle; the graves and pits and… All
- It happened fast. Thirty-two minutes for one world to die, another to be born. Born
- 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… Amy
- 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… Answer
- Here she was, a women who could bolt-load a crossbow in under a second, put half a dozen long arrows in the air in fewer… Air
- A baby was a fact. It was a being with a mind and a nature, and you could feel about it any way you liked,… Any
- Sara waited a respectful time, knowing there was nothing she could do to ease the woman's pain. Grief was a place, Sara understood, where a… All
- 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:… All
- We live, we die. Somewhere along the way, if we're lucky, we may find someone to help lighten the load. Along
- It's different being afraid when there's the hope it will amount to something. Afraid
- The sadness you feel is not your own. It's his sadness you feel in your heart, Amy, for missing you. Amy
- A thousand recollected lives were passing through her, a thousand stories - of love and work, of parents and children, of duty and joy and… Always Longing
- It was possible, he understood, for a person's life to become just a long series of mistakes, and that the end, when it came, was… Bad