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Justin Cronin
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: January 1
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It's different being afraid when there's the hope it will amount to something.
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I like to break left when people think I'm going to go right.
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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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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 little girl in Iowa, named Amy. Amy Harper Bellafonte.
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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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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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And I had always liked vampire stories because they are great material that can be refashioned in lots of ways.
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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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This ravishing world. This achingly bittersweet, ravishing world.
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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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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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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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Choosing writing as a career, just by itself, is a measure of not being a calculating person.
Justin Cronin
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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We live, we die. Somewhere along the way, if we're lucky, we may find someone to help lighten the load.
Justin Cronin
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 than five, blade a target dead through the sweet spot at six meters, on the run, on an off day and yet knitting a pair of baby booties seemed completely beyond her power.
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What strange places our lives can carry us to, what dark passages.
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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.
Justin Cronin
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
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 person went alone. It was like a room without doors, and what happened in that room, all the anger and the pain you felt, was meant to stay there, nobody's business but yours.
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