Top 39 Quotes by Justin Cronin

Choosing writing as a career, just by itself, is a measure of not being a calculating person.

The future that I will not live to see is the one my children will live in. That's my immortality. And I shouldn't try to mortgage theirs for my benefit.

Vampires have always been hot. They are one of our most durable monsters. It's one of those stories that galvanizes us early and it's always going on.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

You learn to write by reading, and my experiences and tastes as a reader are pretty wide.

Behind every writer stands a very large bookshelf.