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 Read Quote
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 information inside a human personality. Justin Cronin Read Quote
And indeed, I am a warmhearted and thoroughly domestic man who gets up and makes pancakes for his children and kisses them on the head when he sends them off to their day. Justin Cronin Read Quote
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 Read Quote
That literary-popular distinction is, in my view, vastly overstated. At the far poles there are clearly books that are purely commercial and purely literary, written for audiences that want to see the same thing enacted over and over and over again. But the middle is where most people read and most people write. Justin Cronin Read Quote
And I had always liked vampire stories because they are great material that can be refashioned in lots of ways. Justin Cronin Read Quote
Writers who pretend that everything they’re doing is completely new are full of it. Justin Cronin Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
And I grew up on a steady diet of science fiction, especially apocalyptic and postapocalyptic fiction. Justin Cronin Read Quote