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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 39 quotes by Justin Cronin Justin Cronin (born 1962) is an American author. He has written four novels: Mary and O'Neil and The Summer Guest, as well as two of three books of a vampire trilogy: The Passage and The Twelve. He has won the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award, the Stephen Crane Prize, and the Whiting Writer's Award. Born and raised in New England, Cronin is a graduate of Harvard University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He taught creative writing and was the... Read full biography of Justin Cronin → 1 2 3 Ctrl → 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... → 0 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... → 0 One of the great themes in American literature is the individual's confrontation with the vast open spaces of the continent. 0 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. 0 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... → 0 My inventing time is all done under the influence of aerobic exercise. Basically, I do all my thinking while I run. 0 Choosing writing as a career, just by itself, is a measure of not being a calculating person. 0 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. 0 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 is to use some of the... → 0 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... → 0 One of the things I constantly think about as a writer is the way in which people are full of contradictions - there's all this contradictory... → 0 The future that I will not live to see is the one my children will live in. That's my immortality. And I shouldn't try to mortgage theirs for... → 0 Behind every writer stands a very large bookshelf. 0 1 2 3 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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