It was possible, he understood, for a person's life to become just a long series of mistakes, and that the end, when it came, was just one more mistake in a chain of bad choices. The thing was, most of these mistakes were actually borrowed from other people. You took their bad ideas, and for whatever reason, made them your own.
Justin CroninAnd indeed, I am a warmhearted and thoroughly domestic man who gets up and makes pancakes for his children and kisses them on the head when he sends them off to their day.
Justin CroninAnd I grew up on a steady diet of science fiction, especially apocalyptic and postapocalyptic fiction.
Justin CroninI'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 CroninMy inventing time is all done under the influence of aerobic exercise. Basically, I do all my thinking while I run.
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