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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. (Justin Cronin)
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. View quote
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You learn to write by reading, and my experiences and tastes as a reader are pretty wide. View quote
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I was a 'Planet of the Apes'-obsessed kid. View quote
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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. View quote
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Writing is a job: you must show up. View quote
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I like to break left when people think I'm going to go right. View quote
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And I grew up on a steady diet of science fiction, especially apocalyptic and postapocalyptic fiction. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I like creating villains. (Justin Cronin)
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. View quote
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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. View quote
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And I had always liked vampire stories because they are great material that can be refashioned in lots of ways. View quote
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Writers who pretend that everything they're doing is completely new are full of it. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. (Justin Cronin)