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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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Always, the eye sees more than the mind can comprehend, and we go through life self-blinded to much that lies before us. We want a simple world, but we live in a magnificently complex one, and rather than open ourselves to it, we perceive the world through filters that make it less daunting.
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We need to laugh at the irrationality of evil, for in doing so we deny evil's power over us, diminish its influence in the world, and tarnish the allure it has for some people.
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Writing a novel is like making love, but it's also like having a tooth pulled. Pleasure and pain. Sometimes it's like making love while having a tooth pulled.
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I try not to spend too much time on partisan politics. Life's too short for that. I don't really believe that there have been many human problems solved by politics.
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Every human being has appetites difficult to control but far fewer have humility, gentleness, and an awareness of their weaknesses.
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I kind of build a novel the way marine polyps build a coral reef, it's millions and millions of little precarious bodies stacked on one another. And in my case, that's thousands of minutes I go through to get from one scene to the next and build it that way.
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I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari.
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In this age, lies were the universal lubricant of the culture. A love of Truth and commitment to it were seldom rewarded and were often punished.
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Some lives, conducted with grace, are beautiful arcs bridging this world to eternity.
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All human lives are so profoundly and intricately entwined-those dead, those living, those generations yet to come-that the fate of all is the fate of each, and the hope of humanity rests in every heart and in every pair of hands.
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...I felt fear enter the halls of my mind, but I didn't give it the keys to every room.
Dean Koontz
I don't find slashing and blood flying everywhere to be scary. I just find it repulsive.
Dean Koontz
Or maybe they were just doing it for fun. A lark. Their religion is tolerant of extreme forms of recreation. Boys will be boys, after all, and sociopathic boys will be sociopathic.
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If you want to publish two books a year under your own name and your publisher doesn't, maybe you need a different publisher.
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What does worry accomplish except to breed more worry?
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Pain is all I know. He murmured. Peace is all I want
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In misfortune lies the seed of future triumph.
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Anger is a violent emotion, vindictive, and as dangerous to he who is driven by it as to anyone on whom it is turned.
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I'm either a mutant or a cripple, and I refuse to be a cripple. People pity cripples, but they're afraid of mutants [...] Fear implies respect.
Dean Koontz
Writing isn't a source of pain. It's psychic chemotherapy. It reduces your psychological tumors and relieves your pain.
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