Top 64 A J Cronin Quotes
#1. Choosing writing as a career, just by itself, is a measure of not being a calculating person.
Justin Cronin
#2. The world tomorrow is haunted
only by what doesn't happen
now.
M.T.C. Cronin
#3. 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.
Justin Cronin
#4. I'd always been around kids, and when you don't have kids, you have a lot more time to do things. Before I had kids, I was a lot more prolific and wrote books a lot faster.
Doreen Cronin
#5. The best memories on tour are always of kids who tell me they are going to run back to their classrooms and start writing!
Doreen Cronin
#6. Don't be afraid to ask if you're on the right train.
Justin Cronin
#7. Wolgast leaned back in his chair and realized how exhausted he was. It always came upon him like this, like the sudden unclenching of a fist.
Justin Cronin
#8. We live, we die. Somewhere along the way, if we're lucky, we may find someone to help lighten the load.
Justin Cronin
#9. Wolgast recalled when he'd come down here with his friends to buy candy and comic books. Back then, a spinning wire rack had stood by the front door: Tales from the Crypt, Fantastic Four, the Dark Knight series, Wolgast's favorite.
Justin Cronin
#10. This here is Juan Sweeting, my second," Michael said. "Goes by Ceps." They shook, the man greeting him with a grunt. "How'd you get the name Ceps?" Peter asked. "I haven't heard that before." The man curled his arms, popping a pair of biceps like two large grapefruits.
Justin Cronin
#11. All his life he had wanted to be known by just one person. That's what love was, he decided. Love was being known.
Justin Cronin
#13. Every book has got its challenges. You run into a plot point that you can't figure out, or a scene that you struggle to write and have to write 50 times.
Justin Cronin
#14. To know and be known: that was the final desire, the heart of love.
Justin Cronin
#15. If you try to write 1,000 words a day, as I do, after 100 days you'll look up and have a book. It may be a mess, and you may have to revise it 50 times, but you can't revise it if you haven't written it.
Justin Cronin
#16. There was something about him, a kind of warm light from inside that you wanted to be near. It reminded her of those little plastic sticks that you snapped so the liquid inside made them glow.
Justin Cronin
#17. It is an interesting truth that the human body, liberated from its head, is in essence a bag of blood with a built-in straw. Holding
Justin Cronin
#18. That is life ... to begin again when everything is lost!
A.J. Cronin
#19. One day you have Einstein, puzzling over the theory of relativity, the next you've got the Manhattan Project and a big hole in the ground.
Justin Cronin
#20. Religions are many, reason is one, we are all brothers.
A.J. Cronin
#21. Every time I pass him he gives me the excommunication stare.
A.J. Cronin
#22. [Once plans for each eventuality are resolved, further] Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength.
A.J. Cronin
#23. Nothing is more limiting than a closed circle of acquaintanceship where every avenue of conversation has been explored and social exchanges are fixed in a known routine.
A.J. Cronin
#24. Hell is the place where one has ceased to hope.
A.J. Cronin
#25. Above all am I convinced of the need, irrevocable and inescapable, of every human heart, for God. No matter how we try to escape, to lose ourselves in restless seeking, we cannot separate ourselves from our divine source. There is no substitute for God.
A.J. Cronin
#26. Funny ... I still can't believe in God." "Does that matter now?" ... "He believes in you.
A.J. Cronin
#27. Hell is that state where one has ceased to hope.
A.J. Cronin
#28. ...happiness (is) an inner state, wholly spiritual, independent... of worldly possession.
A.J. Cronin
#29. The virtue of achievement is victory over oneself. Those who know this can never know defeat.
A.J. Cronin
#30. You are very attractive. And your greatest charm is that you do not realise it!
A.J. Cronin
#31. Everybody has a dream, to male that dream a reality, one must work hard.
H.J. Cronin
#32. Some temptations cannot be fought. One must close one's mind and fly from them
A.J. Cronin
#33. All things fell into the past but one; and what that was, was love.
Justin Cronin
#34. But I did what I thought was right in the moment. In the end, that's all a man has to measure his life, and it's plenty.
Justin Cronin
#35. My real education began when I entered the University of Chicago in September 1951 as a graduate student.
James Cronin
#36. I never want kids to walk away after a school presentation and say, 'I met a writer today.' I want them to say, 'I am a writer.'
Doreen Cronin
#37. I saw my one purpose in that moment, looking into that little girls eyes. I was the one who was meant to save her, that was my one purpose all this time.
Justin Cronin
#38. Gratitude is something of which none of us can give too much. For on the smiles, the thanks we give, our little gestures of appreciation, our neighbors build their philosophy of life.
A.J. Cronin
#39. 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
#40. She would be a girl; Lila had seen her on the ultrasound. A baby girl. Tiny hands and tiny feet and a tiny heart and lungs, floating in the warm broth of her body.
Justin Cronin
#41. What is left when there is no love? A rope and rock.
Justin Cronin
#42. I like to break left when people think I'm going to go right.
Justin Cronin
#43. Vampires have always been hot. They are one of our most durable monsters. It's one of those stories that galvanizes us early and it's always going on.
Justin Cronin
#44. There's a power at work here, something beyond our understanding. You can call it what you like. It doesn't need a name, because it knows yours, my friend.
Justin Cronin
#45. A season is a season, regardless of the number of games.
Joe Cronin
#46. Our whole family assembles in Chicago at Christmas and usually in Aspen in the summer.
James Cronin
#47. The world was a world of dreaming souls who could not die.
Justin Cronin
#48. They say that the moment your life appears before your eyes will be your last, but I'm here to say that it's not so very different when you kiss a woman like Kate, whoever your Kate may be.
Justin Cronin
#49. 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.
Justin Cronin
#50. And 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 Cronin
#51. Four hundred thousand South Africans are dying of AIDS every year. This makes the war on Iraq look like a birthday party.
Jeremy Cronin
#52. What is home but a place where you are truly known?
Justin Cronin
#53. And I had always liked vampire stories because they are great material that can be refashioned in lots of ways.
Justin Cronin
#54. We cannot measure Divine Providence by the yardstick of human mentality.
A.J. Cronin
#55. 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 Cronin
#56. Even if my country remains in war with yours ... remember ... i am not your enemy.
A.J. Cronin
#57. And then, despite all these concerns, Arnette felt her mind begin to loosen, the images of the day unwinding inside her like a spool of thread, pulling her down into sleep.
Justin Cronin
#58. By the time they were done Peter realized that something significant had occurred, an acknowledgment that once made, could not be unmade. The body they had buried might have been a viral, but the person they had buried was a man.
Justin Cronin
#59. One of the things I constantly think about as a writer is the way in which people are full of contradictions - there's all this contradictory information inside a human personality.
Justin Cronin
#60. Does anybody out there care? Are we worth saving? What would God want from me, if there is a God? The greatest faith is the willingness to ask in the first place, all evidence to the contrary. Faith not just in God, but in all of us.
Justin Cronin
#61. Tell me dear, what do you know about prescribing atypical antipsychotics to enchance the effect of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors?
Sherrie Cronin
#62. I have a lot of nieces and nephews. I was always around kids. I was like the family babysitter because I was the only one that wasn't married.
Doreen Cronin
#63. 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.
Justin Cronin
#64. We are born faithful and afraid, when it should be the opposite; it is life that teaches us how much we stand to lose.
Justin Cronin
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