Chuck Hogan
The Strain is a notable work by Chuck Hogan, an American novelist and screenwriter who has worked in English across multiple areas of genre fiction, including science fiction.
Hogan was born on August 4, 1967, in Boston. He attended Canton High School and went on to study at Boston College. From there he developed a career as a novelist and author, also working as a screenwriter alongside his prose work. His writing has spanned science fiction and other genres, and he has produced work in both book form and for the screen.
As a novelist and screenwriter, Hogan has moved between different modes of storytelling over the course of his career. He is a citizen of the United States, and all of his work has been produced in English. The Strain stands as one of his most recognized projects, and his output as both a prose writer and a screenwriter reflects a career that has not been confined to a single format.
Hogan received the Hammett Prize, a recognition that speaks to the regard in which his writing has been held. His work as a novelist and screenwriter continued beyond that recognition, and The Strain remains the work most closely associated with his name.
Quotes by Chuck Hogan
Thinking about drinking now was like fantasizing about the perfect crime. How he would do it – if he were going to do it.
At root, the business of baseball was no better or different from the movies or from church: put on a show, promise people something transcendent, and then bleed the suckers dry.
And there in her bewilderment he recognized his grave mistake. He had surrendered himself to Claire, just as Krista had to him. When you give someone the power to save you, you give them the power to destroy you as well.
How good it must feel to stand for something. To commit oneself to a lost cause. To gather with other like-minded souls and lock arms and sing songs under the stars. Wallowing in futility. Championing it, actually. How wonderful it must be to fight only losing battles. How safe and how comfortable. To posit yourself squarely on the side of peace and good. How brave the sand on an eroding beach.
Even if a thing is doomed – there is that moment of absurd hope that is worth the fall, that is worth everything.
He was backing away behind cover fire with the engaged smile of a teenager seeing his violent daydreams come true.
I love my Kindle, but there are many books that I need to physically own. I think having the choice makes all the difference. Instant gratification - buying a book digitally and owning it sixty seconds later - really is a revolutionary act.
In my formative years, I never missed the 'Creature Double Feature' on Saturday afternoon TV, even if it meant switching back and forth between 'Gamera' and the Red Sox. I did a book report on Stephen King's 'Night Shift' in seventh grade. Unrated Italian horror movies became a weekly rite of passage once I hit seventeen.
The beautiful thing about 'The Strain Trilogy' is the ability to move from gore to high fable to creeping dread to domestic drama to unbearable suspense to the uncanny and on and on. The epic journey is designed to support these swings in mood, and that complements my tastes, which are wide-ranging.
Anything you can do to stay organized and free up the creative side of your brain is a good thing.