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
revise written
If you try to write 1,000 words a day, as I do, after 100 days you'll look up and have a book. It may be a mess, and you may have to revise it 50 times, but you can't revise it if you haven't written it.
great hope learn literary stuff time writer
One of the things you get to do as a writer is that you get to learn new stuff all the time, and I hope that I'm a better writer when I'm 70 than I was when I was 30. That's one of the great things about a literary career.
book writing world
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.
behinds bookshelves
Behind every writer stands a very large bookshelf.
world bittersweet
This ravishing world. This achingly bittersweet, ravishing world.
dark strange-places passages
What strange places our lives can carry us to, what dark passages.
military hierarchy highest
The military was all about hierarchies, who urinated highest on the hydrant
book writing long
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.
vampire stories way
And I had always liked vampire stories because they are great material that can be refashioned in lots of ways.
book writing thinking
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.
worst-moments names light
If asked to name the worst moment of his life, Michael Fisher wouldn't have hesitated to give his answer: it was when the lights went out.
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.
long houston professors
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.
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.