"And I grew up on a steady diet of science fiction, especially apocalyptic and postapocalyptic fiction."
-Justin Cronin
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"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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"I've never written a movie, I'm not in the movie business. I go out to L.A. and I'm like everyone else wandering around in a daze hoping I see movie stars. I write the novels that the movies are based on, and that feels like enough of a job for me."
-Justin Cronin
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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."
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"The future that I will not live to see is the one my children will live in. That's my immortality. And I shouldn't try to mortgage theirs for my benefit."
-Justin Cronin
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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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"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."
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"Beauty is the still birth of suffering, every woman knows that."
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"All the beauty of the world, 'tis but skin deep."
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"Those who find beauty in all of nature will find themselves at one with the secrets of life itself."
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"The flowers anew, returning seasons bring but beauty faded has no second spring."
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"I want the Arabic Granada, that which is art, which is all that seems to me beauty and emotion."
-Isaac Albeniz
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