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. Justin Cronin bookendsave Change image and share on social
I tend to start at 9 o'clock in the morning and write until 3. Those are my best hours. They fit the other rhythms of the world. So I write for six hours, pretty much without any breaks. Justin Cronin breakclockfit Change image and share on social
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. Justin Cronin dayjobkeyboard share on social
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 englishgeneroushave Change image and share on social
One of the things I constantly think about as a writer is the way in which people are full of contradictions - there's all this contradictory information inside a human personality. Justin Cronin constantlycontradictioncontradictory Change image and share on social
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. Justin Cronin completelydarkfascination Change image and share on social
One of the traps or the pitfalls of writing a trilogy - or a triptych, or whatever term you want to use - is that the second book can be a long second act to get you from book one to book three, which borrows all of its energy from the first book. Justin Cronin actbookborrow share on social
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. Justin Cronin agobusdirect Change image and share on social
One of the great themes in American literature is the individual's confrontation with the vast open spaces of the continent. Justin Cronin americanconfrontationcontinent Change image and share on social
