Justin Cronin

One of the great themes in American literature is the individual's confrontation with the vast open spaces of the continent.

My rule has always been, write the next part of the book that you seem to know well. So I won't necessarily write chapter two after chapter one.

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.

Being down in Orlando, Florida, where we filmed the movie, I learned how to bass fish. Jerry Reed, who plays the villain in the movie, taught me how to bass fish.

We define ourselves as intelligent. That's odd, because we're doing the definition - We're creating our own definition and saying, 'We are intelligent!'