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I like to break left when people think I'm going to go right.
Justin Cronin
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Justin Cronin
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: January 1
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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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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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And I grew up on a steady diet of science fiction, especially apocalyptic and postapocalyptic fiction.
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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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This ravishing world. This achingly bittersweet, ravishing world.
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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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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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Behind every writer stands a very large bookshelf.
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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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Don't we all deserve forgiveness? I hope we do I believe we do. Forgiveness says as much about the character of the person bestowing it as the person receiving it. Learning to forgive may be the most difficult of human acts,and the closest thing to divinity, whatever you decide that is.
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It happened fast. Thirty-two minutes for one world to die, another to be born.
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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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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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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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And I had always liked vampire stories because they are great material that can be refashioned in lots of ways.
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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 own conclusions. And try to bring empathy to all sides of the equation.
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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.
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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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