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Justin Cronin Quotes

And I had always liked vampire stories because they are great material that can be refashioned in lots of ways Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

A baby was a fact. It was a being with a mind and a nature, and you could feel about it any way you liked, but a baby wouldn’t care. Just by existing, it demanded that you believe in a future: the future it would crawl in, walk in, live in. A baby was a piece of time; it was a promise you made that the world made back to you Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

My inventing time is all done under the influence of aerobic exercise. Basically, I do all my thinking while I run Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

In her mind’s eye she saw it, saw it all at last: the rolling armies and the flames of battle; the graves and pits and dying cries of a hundred million souls; the spreading darkness, like a black wing stretching over the earth; the last, bitter hours of cruelty and sorrow, and the terrible, final flights; death’s great dominion over all, and, at the last, empty cities, becalmed by the silence of a hundred years. Already these things were coming to pass Picture Quote #1

You learn to write by reading, and my experiences and tastes as a reader are pretty wide Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

We live, we die. Somewhere along the way, if we’re lucky, we may find someone to help lighten the load Picture Quote #1

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It was possible, he understood, for a person’s life to become just a long series of mistakes, and that the end, when it came, was just one more mistake in a chain of bad choices. The thing was, most of these mistakes were actually borrowed from other people. You took their bad ideas, and for whatever reason, made them your own Picture Quote #1

It’s different being afraid when there’s the hope it will amount to something Picture Quote #1

... 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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Because that’s what heaven is... it’s opening the door of a house in twilight and everyone you love is there Picture Quote #1

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As long as we remember a person, they’re not really gone. Their thoughts, their feelings, their memories, they become a part of us Picture Quote #1

There was something in the pages of these books that had the power to make him feel better about things, a life raft to cling to before the dark currents of memory washed him downstream again, and on brighter days, he could even see himself going on this way for some time. A small but passable life. And then, of course, the end of the world happened Picture Quote #1

Kittredge had obviously misjudged her, but he had learned that was the way with most people. The story was never the story, and it surprised you, how much another person could carry Picture Quote #1

I've never written a movie, I'm not in the movie business. I go out to L. A. And I'm like everyone else wandering around in a daze hoping I see movie stars. I write the novels that the movies are based on, and that feels like enough of a job for me Picture Quote #1

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And I had always liked vampire stories because they are great material that can be refashioned in lots of ways (Justin Cronin Quotes) 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 (Justin Cronin Quotes) A baby was a fact. It was a being with a mind and a nature, and you could feel about it any way you liked, but a baby wouldn’t care. Just by existing, it demanded that you believe in a future: the future it would crawl in, walk in, live in. A baby was a piece of time; it was a promise you made that the world made back to you (Justin Cronin Quotes) 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 (Justin Cronin Quotes) 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 (Justin Cronin Quotes) 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 (Justin Cronin Quotes) 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 (Justin Cronin Quotes) 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 (Justin Cronin Quotes) 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 (Justin Cronin Quotes) My inventing time is all done under the influence of aerobic exercise. Basically, I do all my thinking while I run (Justin Cronin Quotes) 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 (Justin Cronin Quotes) 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 (Justin Cronin Quotes) 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 (Justin Cronin Quotes) 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 (Justin Cronin Quotes) In her mind’s eye she saw it, saw it all at last: the rolling armies and the flames of battle; the graves and pits and dying cries of a hundred million souls; the spreading darkness, like a black wing stretching over the earth; the last, bitter hours of cruelty and sorrow, and the terrible, final flights; death’s great dominion over all, and, at the last, empty cities, becalmed by the silence of a hundred years. Already these things were coming to pass (Justin Cronin Quotes) You learn to write by reading, and my experiences and tastes as a reader are pretty wide (Justin Cronin Quotes) 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 (Justin Cronin Quotes) We live, we die. Somewhere along the way, if we’re lucky, we may find someone to help lighten the load (Justin Cronin Quotes) It was possible, he understood, for a person’s life to become just a long series of mistakes, and that the end, when it came, was just one more mistake in a chain of bad choices. The thing was, most of these mistakes were actually borrowed from other people. You took their bad ideas, and for whatever reason, made them your own (Justin Cronin Quotes) It’s different being afraid when there’s the hope it will amount to something (Justin Cronin Quotes) ... 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 (Justin Cronin Quotes) 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 (Justin Cronin Quotes) 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 (Justin Cronin Quotes) Because that’s what heaven is... it’s opening the door of a house in twilight and everyone you love is there (Justin Cronin Quotes) As long as we remember a person, they’re not really gone. Their thoughts, their feelings, their memories, they become a part of us (Justin Cronin Quotes) There was something in the pages of these books that had the power to make him feel better about things, a life raft to cling to before the dark currents of memory washed him downstream again, and on brighter days, he could even see himself going on this way for some time. A small but passable life. And then, of course, the end of the world happened (Justin Cronin Quotes) Kittredge had obviously misjudged her, but he had learned that was the way with most people. The story was never the story, and it surprised you, how much another person could carry (Justin Cronin Quotes) I've never written a movie, I'm not in the movie business. I go out to L. A. And I'm like everyone else wandering around in a daze hoping I see movie stars. I write the novels that the movies are based on, and that feels like enough of a job for me (Justin Cronin Quotes)

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