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Justin Cronin Quotes

American - Author | 1962 -

One thing that worried me was how writers get categorized and so they end up having to write the same kind of book again and again. That is fine if it is what you want to do, but I would rather be locked in the trunk of my car with a weasel than write the same book every three years until I die.

Car Me Book End Die You

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.

War Cold Fall Wall Right Everything

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.

Beauty Hero Sunshine Villain Dirt

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

Time Influence Thinking Exercise Run

Vampires have always been hot. They are one of our most durable monsters. It's one of those stories that galvanizes us early and it's always going on.

Early Hot Always Monsters Us Going

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.

Writing Book Energy Long You Three

I like to break left when people think I'm going to go right.

People Think Go Right Break Going

I like creating villains.

Creating Like Villains

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.

Job People Country Teach First Rice

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.

Writing Teach Up Fiction Iowa Broad

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.

Day Job Writing Treat You Every Day

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.

Writing Think Presence Books Read

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