Justin Cronin
Justin Cronin
Justin Croninis an American author. He has written five novels: Mary and O'Neil and The Summer Guest, as well as a vampire trilogy consisting of The Passage, The Twelve and City of Mirrors. He has won the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award, the Stephen Crane Prize, and a Whiting Award...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
CountryUnited States of America
people way stories
Kittredge had obviously misjudged her, but he had learned that was the way with most people. The story was never the story, and it surprised you, how much another person could carry.
memories book dark
There was something in the pages of these books that had the power to make him feel better about things, a life raft to cling to before the dark currents of memory washed him downstream again, and on brighter days, he could even see himself going on this way for some time. A small but passable life. And then, of course, the end of the world happened.
memories long feelings
As long as we remember a person, they're not really gone. Their thoughts, their feelings, their memories, they become a part of us.
twilight love-is doors
Because that's what heaven is...it's opening the door of a house in twilight and everyone you love is there.
dream soul world
The world was a world of dreaming souls who could not die.
space literature individual
One of the great themes in American literature is the individual's confrontation with the vast open spaces of the continent.
book long needs
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.
moving writing use
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.
thinking people break
I like to break left when people think I'm going to go right.
jobs writing keyboards
I'm a workmanlike writer. I show up every day and treat it like a job. The old rule that writing is like any other job, the first rule is that you must show up. I'm at the keyboard from 9 to 4 every day.
stars home thinking
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.
dark numbers growing
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.
kids apes obsessed
I was a 'Planet of the Apes'-obsessed kid.
book writing views
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.