Justin Cronin Quotes - Page 2

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• 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.

  Justin Cronin

  Writing, Iowa, Fiction

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• Here she was, a women who could bolt-load a crossbow in under a second, put half a dozen long arrows in the air in fewer than five, blade a target dead through the sweet spot at six meters, on the run, on an off day; and yet knitting a pair of baby booties seemed completely beyond her power.

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  Running, Baby, Sweet

  Justin Cronin (2010). “The Passage: A Novel (Book One of The Passage Trilogy)”, p.436, Ballantine Books

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• 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.

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  Writing, Light, People

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

  Justin Cronin

  Running, Exercise, Thinking

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• I like creating villains.

  Justin Cronin

  Creating, Villain

  "Justin Cronin, author of The Passage, on book two of his vampire trilogy". Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, www.avclub.com. November 01, 2012.

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• 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.

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  Stars, Home, Thinking

  "Inside Justin Cronin's 'The Passage'". Interview with Christian Duchateau, www.cnn.com. May 15, 2011.

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

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  Kids, Apes, Obsessed

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• I was very much a child of the Cold War.

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  Children, War, Cold

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• The fact is, there's a great deal of hair-splitting fussiness when it comes to fly-fishing, most of it as silly as a top hat.

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  Silly, Lakes, Hair

  Justin Cronin (2004). “The Summer Guest”, p.82, Dial Press

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• The world was a world of dreaming souls who could not die.

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  Dream, Soul, World

  Justin Cronin (2010). “The Passage: A Novel (Book One of The Passage Trilogy)”, p.351, Ballantine Books

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• 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.

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  Believe, Character, Forgiving

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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.

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  Mistake, Ideas, Long

  "The Passage". Book by Justin Cronin, 2010.

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• She remembered no one at all. She remembered one day thinking: I am alone. There is no I but I. She lived in the dark. She taught herself to walk in the light, though it was not easy.

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  Dark, Thinking, Light

  Justin Cronin (2010). “The Passage: A Novel (Book One of The Passage Trilogy)”, p.350, Ballantine Books

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• The sadness you feel is not your own. It's his sadness you feel in your heart, Amy, for missing you.

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  Heart, Sadness, Missing

  Justin Cronin (2010). “The Passage: A Novel (Book One of The Passage Trilogy)”, p.685, Ballantine Books

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• 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.

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  Girl, Eye, Purpose

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• It was what you did, Wolgast understood; you started to tell a story about who you were, and soon enough the lies were all you had and you became that person.

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  Lying, Soon Enough, Deceit

  Justin Cronin (2010). “The Passage: A Novel (Book One of The Passage Trilogy)”, p.129, Ballantine Books

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• He breathed once more, holding the air in his chest, as if it were not air but something more--a sweet taste of freedom, of all cares lifted, everything over and done.

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  Sweet, Air, Done

  Justin Cronin (2010). “The Passage: A Novel (Book One of The Passage Trilogy)”, p.666, Ballantine Books

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

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  Fiction, Grew Up, Apocalyptic

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• The military was all about hierarchies, who urinated highest on the hydrant

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  Military, Hierarchy, Highest

  Justin Cronin (2012). “The Twelve (Book Two of The Passage Trilogy): A Novel (Book Two of The Passage Trilogy)”, p.79, Ballantine Books

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• 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.

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  Book, Writing, Thinking

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• 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.

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  Eye, Army, Flames

  Justin Cronin (2010). “The Passage: A Novel (Book One of The Passage Trilogy)”, p.105, Ballantine Books

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• 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.

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  Courage, Real, Believe

  Justin Cronin (2004). “The Summer Guest”, p.128, Dial Press

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• Writing is a job: you must show up.

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  Jobs, Writing, Shows

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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.

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  Book, Long, Needs

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• 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.

  Justin Cronin

  Long, Houston, Professors

  "Inside Justin Cronin's 'The Passage'". Interview with Christian Duchateau, www.cnn.com. May 15, 2011.

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