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 CroninWe live, we die. Somewhere along the way, if we're lucky, we may find someone to help lighten the load.
Justin CroninAs long as we remember a person, they're not really gone. Their thoughts, their feelings, their memories, they become a part of us.
Justin CroninAnd I grew up on a steady diet of science fiction, especially apocalyptic and postapocalyptic fiction.
Justin CroninRust, corrosion, wind, rain. The nibbling teeth of mice and the acrid droppings of insects and the devouring jaws of years. The was of nature upon machines, of the planet's chaotic forces upon the works of humankind. The energy that man had pulled from the earth was being inexorably pulled back into it, sucked like water down a drain. Before long, if it hadn't happened already, not a single high-tension pole would be left standing on the earth. Mankind had built a world that would take a hundred years to die. A century for the last light to go out.
Justin Cronin