Justin Cronin Quotes
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Justin Cronin Famous Quotes & Sayings
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It was as if I'd lost some cosmic game of musical chairs; the song had stopped, I was left standing, and there was simply nothing to be dine about it.
Strange how one minute life was a certain way and then it was another, and you couldn't remember what you'd done to make it all happen.
But I did what I thought was right in the moment. In the end, that's all a man has to measure his life, and it's plenty.
Our place had just four rooms and voices had a way of carrying, you couldn't sneeze in one room without somebody in another saying bless you.
It had never occurred to her that God would cry, but of course that was wrong. God would be crying all the time. He would cry and cry and never stop.
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.
Nothing lasts forever." "Some things do." "What kind of things?" "The things we like to remember. The love we've felt for people.
Since our first, furry ancestor scraped flint on stone and banished night with fire, we have climbed heavenward on a ladder made of our own arrogance.
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.
All his life he had wanted to be known by just one person. That's what love was, he decided. Love was being known.
Zander was always sneaking off to the library to get more books ... Guy would read anything. Said books were more interesting than people.
What was childhood if not a passage from light to dark, of the soul's slow drowning in an ocean of ordinary matter? During
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.
He knew what he'd see; one more slack face, one more pair of eyes that had barely learned to read, one more soul that had stared into itself too long.
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.
Real courage is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. Doing the unpopular thing because it's what you believe, and the heck with everybody.
Michael lifted a menu from a stack on the counter and opened it. 'What's meatloaf?' I get the meat part, but a loaf of it?
It was like leading people to the edge of a cliff, showing them the view, and then shoving them off.
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.
We live, we die. Somewhere along the way, if we're lucky, we may find someone to help lighten the load.
We search for ourselves in our surroundings, and everything I saw was either brand-new or falling apart. Most
It is an interesting truth that the human body, liberated from its head, is in essence a bag of blood with a built-in straw. Holding
To have a child was to receive the gift of true immortality - not time stopped, as it had stopped in Amy, but time continuing and everlasting.
The sadness you feel is not your own. It's his sadness you feel in your heart, Amy, for missing you.
Yet, to yield, to accept death: the mind forbade it. The mind demanded, against all sense, to go on. Fanning
One day you have Einstein, puzzling over the theory of relativity, the next you've got the Manhattan Project and a big hole in the ground.
The floor was slick with blood, so much blood that he felt his feet sliding on it, the grease of human remains.
But as love turns to grief, and grief becomes anger, so must anger yield to thought, in order to know itself.
That was when you got to actually liking people, which was a problem. Things fell apart fast after that.
Too many what-ifs are just a way to keep yourself up at night, and there's not enough decent sleep to go around.
I've never stopped and never ever will. But the words got tangled up somewhere between his mouth and his brain, and the moment slipped away.
One of the great themes in American literature is the individual's confrontation with the vast open spaces of the continent.
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.
The lie had worked so far, but Lacey felt its softness, like a floor of rotten boards beneath her feet.
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.
And I grew up on a steady diet of science fiction, especially apocalyptic and postapocalyptic fiction.
Wolgast leaned back in his chair and realized how exhausted he was. It always came upon him like this, like the sudden unclenching of a fist.
Events can seem random while you're living them, but when you look back, what do you see? A chain of coincidences? Plain old luck? Or something more?
Because that's what heaven is ... it's opening the door of a house in twilight and everyone you love is there.
We are born faithful and afraid, when it should be the opposite; it is life that teaches us how much we stand to lose.
All night his mind seemed to skip over the surface of sleep like a stone upon water, never quite breaking the skin. As
It's children, he thought, that give us our lives; without them we are nothing, we are here and then gone, like the dust. A
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.
There were people who were like this, the ones who could not be ruffled or else didn't show it, who possessed great internal reservoirs of calm.