Justin Cronin Quotes

And I grew up on a steady diet of science fiction, especially apocalyptic and postapocalyptic fiction.
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Science, Diet, Fiction

And I had always liked vampire stories because they are great material that can be refashioned in lots of ways.
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Great, Ways, Stories

Behind every writer stands a very large bookshelf.
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Behind, Writer, Large

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

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.
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Dark, Growing, Present

I like creating villains.
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Creating, Villains

I like to break left when people think I'm going to go right.
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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.
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Experience, Around, Stars

I was a 'Planet of the Apes'-obsessed kid.
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I was very much a child of the Cold War.
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War, Child, Cold

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.
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Writing, Teach, Fiction

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.
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End, Book, Writing

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

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 after chapter one.
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Book, Two, After

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

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.
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Writing, Read, Books

Writers who pretend that everything they're doing is completely new are full of it.
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Full, Writers, Pretend

Writing is a job: you must show up.
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Job, Writing, Show

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

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.
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Children, Off, Makes

Every book has got its challenges. You run into a plot point that you can't figure out, or a scene that you struggle to write and have to write 50 times.
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Struggle, Book, Write

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 came here to teach at Rice.
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Job, Country, Reason

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.
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War, Until, Fall

I tend to start at 9 o'clock in the morning and write until 3. Those are my best hours. They fit the other rhythms of the world. So I write for six hours, pretty much without any breaks.
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Best, Morning, Pretty

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, the first rule is that you must show up. I'm at the keyboard from 9 to 4 every day.
Justin Cronin

Job, Writing, Old

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Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: 1962

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