Justin Cronin quotes

Because that's what heaven is...it's opening the door of a house in twilight and everyone you love is there. (Justin Cronin)
It happened fast. Thirty-two minutes for one world to die, another to be born. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I was very much a child of the Cold War. View quote
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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. View quote
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The world was a world of dreaming souls who could not die. View quote
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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. View quote
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Behind every writer stands a very large bookshelf. View quote
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This ravishing world. This achingly bittersweet, ravishing world. View quote
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What strange places our lives can carry us to, what dark passages. (Justin Cronin)
Even on the darkest night, my friend, life will have its way. View quote
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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. View quote
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So perhaps the greatest worry of all was that one day you would realize that all the worries of your life amounted to one thing: the desire to just stop worrying. View quote
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It's different being afraid when there's the hope it will amount to something. View quote
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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. View quote
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Choosing writing as a career, just by itself, is a measure of not being a calculating person. View quote
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We live, we die. Somewhere along the way, if we're lucky, we may find someone to help lighten the load. View quote
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Before she became the Girl from Nowhere-the One Who Walked In, the First and Last and Only, who lived a thousand years-she was just a little girl in Iowa, named Amy. Amy Harper Bellafonte. View quote
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As long as we remember a person, they're not really gone. Their thoughts, their feelings, their memories, they become a part of us. View quote
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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. (Justin Cronin)
Mankind had built a world that would take a hundred years to die. A century for the last light to go out. View quote
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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. View quote
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One of the great themes in American literature is the individual's confrontation with the vast open spaces of the continent. View quote
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Every book has got its challenges. You run into a plot point that you can't figure out, or a scene that you struggle to write and have to write 50 times. View quote
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Justin Cronin

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Photo: Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0
Occupation: American Author
Born: 1962
Quotes count: 46

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