Justin Cronin Quotes - Page 2

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.

Choosing writing as a career, just by itself, is a measure of not being a calculating person.

Miles away from everthing and everyone I've ever known or loved. I feel as if I've entered a new era of my life. What strange places our lives carry us to.

It happened fast. Thirty-two minutes for one world to die, another to be born.

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

And I grew up on a steady diet of science fiction, especially apocalyptic and postapocalyptic fiction.

I was a 'Planet of the Apes'-obsessed kid.

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.

The fact is, there's a great deal of hair-splitting fussiness when it comes to fly-fishing, most of it as silly as a top hat.

I like creating villains.

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.

I was very much a child of the Cold War.

The world was a world of dreaming souls who could not die.

She remembered no one at all. She remembered one day thinking: I am alone. There is no I but I. She lived in the dark. She taught herself to walk in the light, though it was not easy.

The sadness you feel is not your own. It's his sadness you feel in your heart, Amy, for missing you.

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.

He breathed once more, holding the air in his chest, as if it were not air but something more--a sweet taste of freedom, of all cares lifted, everything over and done.

It was what you did, Wolgast understood; you started to tell a story about who you were, and soon enough the lies were all you had and you became that person.

The military was all about hierarchies, who urinated highest on the hydrant

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.

Writing is a job: you must show up.

Real courage is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. Doing the unpopular thing because it's what you believe, and the heck with everybody.

There's an outline for each of the books that I adhere to pretty closely, but I'm not averse to taking it in a new direction, as long as I can get it back to where I need it to go.

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 same tricks. They're rhetorical, not visual, but it's the same move.

Writers who pretend that everything they're doing is completely new are full of it.