Justin Cronin Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“Writing is a job: you must show up.”

“I came to Houston for a job, the reason most people move halfway across the country with a first grader and a five-week-old. I came here to teach at Rice.”

“I'm still an English professor at Rice University here in Houston. They've been very generous in letting me on a very long leash to just work on 'The Passage' and its sequels.”

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

“And I had always liked vampire stories because they are great material that can be refashioned in lots of ways.”

“I like creating villains.”