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This ravishing world. This achingly bittersweet, ravishing world.

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Justin Cronin
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: January 1
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
University Teacher
Writer
Eastern States
Bittersweet
World
Achingly
Ravishing

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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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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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What strange places our lives can carry us to, what dark passages.
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We live, we die. Somewhere along the way, if we're lucky, we may find someone to help lighten the load.
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One of the traps or the pitfalls of writing a trilogy - or a triptych, or whatever term you want to use - is that the second book can be a long second act to get you from book one to book three, which borrows all of its energy from the first book.
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Behind every writer stands a very large bookshelf.
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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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I like to break left when people think I'm going to go right.
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It's different being afraid when there's the hope it will amount to something.
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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 on the villain.
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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 work on 'The Passage' and its sequels.
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That literary-popular distinction is, in my view, vastly overstated. At the far poles there are clearly books that are purely commercial and purely literary, written for audiences that want to see the same thing enacted over and over and over again. But the middle is where most people read and most people write.
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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 out.
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And I had always liked vampire stories because they are great material that can be refashioned in lots of ways.
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And I grew up on a steady diet of science fiction, especially apocalyptic and postapocalyptic fiction.
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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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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: the desire to just stop worrying.
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Choosing writing as a career, just by itself, is a measure of not being a calculating person.
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The world was a world of dreaming souls who could not die.
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I saw my one purpose in that moment, looking into that little girls eyes. I was the one who was meant to save her, that was my one purpose all this time.
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