Justin Cronin Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“I was very much a child of the Cold War.”

“I'm an ecumenical reader, grew up with all sorts of fiction, teach writing, went to the Iowa Writers' Workshop, so my tastes and interests are broad.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Vampires have always been hot. They are one of our most durable monsters. It's one of those stories that galvanizes us early and it's always going on.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“You learn to write by reading, and my experiences and tastes as a reader are pretty wide.”