American - Author | 1962 -
And I grew up on a steady diet of science fiction, especially apocalyptic and postapocalyptic fiction.
Justin Cronin
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I was very much a child of the Cold War.
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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 tend to start at 9 o'clock in the morning and write until 3. Those are my best hours. They fit the other rhythms of the world. So I write for six hours, pretty much without any breaks.
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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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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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Choosing writing as a career, just by itself, is a measure of not being a calculating person.
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I was a 'Planet of the Apes'-obsessed kid.
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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 my benefit.
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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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One of the things you get to do as a writer is that you get to learn new stuff all the time, and I hope that I'm a better writer when I'm 70 than I was when I was 30. That's one of the great things about a literary career.
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If you try to write 1,000 words a day, as I do, after 100 days you'll look up and have a book. It may be a mess, and you may have to revise it 50 times, but you can't revise it if you haven't written it.
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