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I don't write a quick draft and then revise instead, I work slowly page by page, revising and polishing.

Dean Koontz

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Dean Koontz
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 9
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here in the summer desert, winter found my blood
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In the belly of Leviathan ... one can either despair and perish, or be cheerful and persevere.
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I fall down on the side of free will, simply because if you look at where I came from, and what I was able to do in my life, what was able to happen.
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You can't always win arguments as a writer, but you have to just go ahead and say, well, I'm doing it that way anyway.
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the worst happens when you least expect it
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I see dead people. But, then by God, I do something about it!
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A great deal of phenomenal experience has fostered in me a flexibility of the mind and imagination that some might call madness
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One man's idea of perfect order is another man's chaos.
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Humanity was drawn to turmoil and self-destruction as inevitably as the earth was drawn to complete its annual revolution of the sun.
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Hunches [are] just messages from the subconscious, which [is] thinking furiously all the time and processing information we have not consciously noted.
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I think the world is an interesting place and I don't think anybody has the firm and final answer to what it is but I kind of assume there's a purpose.
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No degree of prosperity can be sufficient to eliminate all misfortune, and sloth is impervious to opportunity.
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Maybe there's nothing impossible tonight. We're down the hole to Wonderland, and no White Rabbit to guide us. If I remember correctly, the White Rabbit was an unreliable guide, anyway.
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The destruction that barbarians leave behind has a grim fascination, doesn't it? We're reminded how thin is the veneer of civilization.
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Readers will stay with an author, no matter what the variations in style and genre, as long as they get that sense of story, of character, of empathetic involvement.
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...what makes humanity beautiful is our free will, our individuality, our endless striving in spite of our imperfection. BY THE LIGHT OF THE MOON Chapter 27 Page 214
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But the more people we love and the more deeply we love them, the more vulnerable we are to loss and grief and loneliness.
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Thanks to the circus between my ears, I can seize upon the smallest disquieting observation and from it extrapolate a terror of cataclysmic proportions.
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