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And I grew up on a steady diet of science fiction, especially apocalyptic and postapocalyptic fiction.
- Justin Cronin
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#Fiction
#Science Fiction
#Science
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.
- Justin Cronin
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#Early
#Hot
#Monsters
#Us
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
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#Every Day
#Job
#Keyboard
#Treat
I'm an ecumenical reader, grew up with all sorts of fiction, teach writing, went to the Iowa Writers' Workshop, so my tastes and interests are broad.
- Justin Cronin
#Fiction
#Teach
#Up
#Workshop
#Writing
I came to Houston for a job, the reason most people move halfway across the country with a first grader and a five-week-old. I came here to teach at Rice.
- Justin Cronin
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#Job
#People
#Reason
#Rice
I like creating villains.
- Justin Cronin
#Creating
#Like
#Villains
I like to break left when people think I'm going to go right.
- Justin Cronin
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#Left
#Like
#People
#Right
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
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#Energy
#Long
#Three
#Whatever
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
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#Experience
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#See
#Stars
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
#Long
#Me
#Rice
#University
#Work
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
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#Morning
#Start
#Without
#World
Behind every writer stands a very large bookshelf.
- Justin Cronin
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#Bookshelf
#Every
#Large
#Writer
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.
- Justin Cronin
#Cold
#Everything
#Fall
#Right
#War
My inventing time is all done under the influence of aerobic exercise. Basically, I do all my thinking while I run.
- Justin Cronin
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#Influence
#Run
#Thinking
#Time
One of the great themes in American literature is the individual's confrontation with the vast open spaces of the continent.
- Justin Cronin
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#Great
#Literature
#Open
#Vast
My theory of characterization is basically this: Put some dirt on a hero, and put some sunshine on the villain, one brush stroke of beauty on the villain.
- Justin Cronin
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#Dirt
#Hero
#Sunshine
#Villain
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