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Some days I'm lucky to squeeze out a page of copy that pleases me, but I get as many as six or seven pages on a very good day the average is probably three pages.

Dean Koontz

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Dean Koontz
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 9
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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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Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion, and empathy.
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Your mind always does worse things than people can show in a movie.
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But once an idea for a novel seizes a writer...well, it’s like an inner fire that at first warms you and makes you feel good but then begins to eat you alive, burn you up from within. You can’t just walk away from the fire it keeps burning. The only way to put it out is to write the book.
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Loyal companions are an unequaled grace, stanching fear before it bleeds you numb, a reliable antidote for creeping despair.
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The rain wasn't the usual glittering silver, but dark and dirty, as if nature were a scrubwoman wringing out a filthy mop.
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I always thought happiness was a choice and I always chose things that made me happy, and books were one of those.
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How passionately we love everything that cannot last: the dazzling crystallory of winter, the spring in bloom, the fragile flight of butterflies, crimson sunsets, a kiss, and life.
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In my books, I never portray violence as a reasonable solution to a problem. If the lead characters in the story are driven to it, it's at the extreme end of their experience.
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Books showed me that there were other ways to live a life.
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Grief is a healthy emotion, and it's healthy to embrace it. By accepting loss, we clarify our values and the meaning of our lives.
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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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Not all popular novelists are good, but all good novelists are, sooner or later, popular.
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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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The brain acknowledged the approach of death while the heart stubbornly insisted upon immortality.
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It was one of those rare times when remembering the dead was more inmportant than tending to the needs of the living.
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This world, which has the potential to be Eden, is instead the hell before Hell. In our arrogance, we have made it so.
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Loneliness comes in two basic varieties. When it results from a desire for solitude, loneliness is a door we close against the world. When the world instead rejects us, loneliness is an open door, unused.
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Not all or even most suffering is at the hands of fate it befalls us at our invitation.
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There are no explanations for human evil. Only excuses.
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