Justin Cronin Quotes & Sayings

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“One of the great themes in American literature is the individual's confrontation with the vast open spaces of the continent.”

“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.”

“Behind every writer stands a very large bookshelf.”

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

“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.”