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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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These days, people spent too much time striving to understand their feelings - and then ended up with none that were genuine.
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When you have dogs, you witness their uncomplaining acceptance of suffering, their bright desire to make the most of life in spite of the limitations of age and disease, their calm awareness of the approaching end when their final hours come. They accept death with a grace that I hope I will one day be brave enough to muster.
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Sometimes many publishers prefer that you write the same book every time, but I have a low boredom threshold so that isn't going to happen.
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When it came to formal classes, I was a slacker. But I've always been a diligent autodidact and can teach myself virtually any subject if I have a serious interest in it.
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People couldn't bear to go on living if they faced every cold truth about themselves.
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The more you expect from life, the more your expectations will be fulfilled. By laughing, you do not use up your laughter, but increase your store of it. The more you love, the more you will be loved. The more you give, the more you will receive. Life proves that truth every hour, every day. And life continues to surprise.
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Despair is good. Despair can be the nadir of one life and the starting point of an ascent into another, better one.
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There’s just something unsettling about studying your reflection. It’s not a matter of being dissatisfied with your face or of being embarrassed by your vanity. Maybe it’s that when you gaze into your own eyes, you don’t see what you wish to see—or glimpse something that you wish weren’t there.
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The things we worry about the most are never the things that bite us. The sharpest teeth always take their nip of us when we are looking the other way.
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One of the things I like enormously about Bob Weinstein is that that he's the only studio head I have ever known who will change his mind and say he was wrong.
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Hope is the destination that we seek. Love is the road that leads to hope. Courage is the motor that drives us. We travel out of darkness into faith.
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