"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."

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Source : "Inside Justin Cronin's 'The Passage'". Interview with Christian Duchateau, www.cnn.com. May 15, 2011.

Justin Cronin

#Book Quotes #Writing Quotes #Two Quotes

“When you fall in a river, you're no longer a fisherman; you're a swimmer.”
“Good decisions can have bad short-term outcomes but be great for the business long-term.”
“English is the product of a Saxon warrior trying to make a date with an Angle bar-maid, and as such is no more legitimate than any of the other products of that conversation.”
“A man is always afraid of a woman that loves him too much”
“Those who murder fame Kill more than life destroyers.”

Source : Richard Savage (1775). “The Works of Richard Savage, Esq., Son of the Earl Rivers: With an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author”, p.141
“Every sensation shares the same characteristic: it arises and passes away, arises and passes away. It is this arising and passing that we have to experience through practice, not just accept as truth because Buddha said so, not just accept because intellectually it seems logical enough to us. We must experience sensationâ€™s nature, understand its flux, and learn not to react to it.”
“Anybody that's old and closed-minded does not like Rick James... They don't like the fact that I'm free and I'm wide open.”
“Walking is the exact balance between spirit and humility.”

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