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Writing is a job: you must show up.

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Writers who pretend that everything they're doing is completely new are full of it.

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If you write a good action sequence well in a novel, you're already writing it for film, because the only way to do it well is to use some of the same tricks. They're rhetorical, not visual, but it's the same move.

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If you are writing any book about the end of the world, what you are really writing about is what's worth saving about it.

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And I grew up on a steady diet of science fiction, especially apocalyptic and postapocalyptic fiction.

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I was very much a child of the Cold War.

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I'm still an English professor at Rice University here in Houston. They've been very generous in letting me on a very long leash to just work on 'The Passage' and its sequels.

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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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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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I think many years ago I got on a bus in L.A. and drove around to see the stars' homes, but that's the extent of my direct experience in Hollywood.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: Unknown

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