Justin Cronin Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• 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

  Book, Writing, World

• There was something in the pages of these books that had the power to make him feel better about things, a life raft to cling to before the dark currents of memory washed him downstream again, and on brighter days, he could even see himself going on this way for some time. A small but passable life. And then, of course, the end of the world happened.

  Justin Cronin

  Memories, Book, Dark

  Justin Cronin (2012). “The Twelve (Book Two of The Passage Trilogy): A Novel (Book Two of The Passage Trilogy)”, p.41, Ballantine Books

• 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.

  Justin Cronin

  Book, Writing, Views

• One thing that worried me was how writers get categorized and so they end up having to write the same kind of book again and again. That is fine if it is what you want to do, but I would rather be locked in the trunk of my car with a weasel than write the same book every three years until I die.

  Justin Cronin

  Book, Writing, Years

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

  Justin Cronin

  Book, Reading, Writing

• 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.

  Justin Cronin

  Book, Writing, Thinking

• 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.

  Justin Cronin

  Book, Writing, Two

  "Inside Justin Cronin's 'The Passage'". Interview with Christian Duchateau, www.cnn.com. May 15, 2011.

• 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.

  Justin Cronin

  Running, Struggle, Book

  "Book Talk: "Fun" bestsellers a big switch for Justin Cronin". Interview with Elaine Lies, www.reuters.com. November 1, 2012.

• 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

  Book, Writing, Long

  "Justin Cronin, author of The Passage, on book two of his vampire trilogy". Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, www.avclub.com. November 1, 2012.

• There's an outline for each of the books that I adhere to pretty closely, but I'm not averse to taking it in a new direction, as long as I can get it back to where I need it to go.

  Justin Cronin

  Book, Long, Needs

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