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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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Intuition is seeing with the soul.
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Where there is cake, there is hope. And there is always cake.
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Without trust, there can be no tranquil resting of the mind.
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Never, never try to scope the market.
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On the Road that I have taken, one day walking I awaken, amazed to see where I've come, where I'm going, where I'm from.
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In the end, it's all about perseverance.
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The only thing I know for sure is how much I do not know.
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Don't tell me what's necessary, you presumptupus pup. What's necessary is whatever I wish to do, regardless of how unnecessary it might be.
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They said there was no rest for the wicked. In fact, there was rest neither for the virtuous nor the wicked, nor for guys like Billy, who were uncommitted regarding the whole idea of virtue versus wickedness and who were just trying to do their jobs.
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Hope, however, isn't all that's needed to achieve change. Hope is a hand extended, but two hands are required to be pulled out of this deep hole. The second hand was faith.
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The desire to write well can never be fulfilled without hard work.
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A silent dark...as black as a moonless lake, as a ravine's wings, darkness there and nothing more, merely this and nothing more.
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Even in the darkest moments, light exists if you have the faith to see it. Fear is a poison produced by the mind, and courage is the antidote stored always in the soul. In misfortune lies the seed of future triumph.
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The world is full of broken people. Splints, casts, miracle drugs, and time can't mend fractured hearts, wounded hearts, wounded minds, torn spirits.
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I receive about 10,000 letters a year from readers, and in the first year after a book is published, perhaps 5,000 letters will deal specifically with that piece of work.
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Not all popular novelists are good, but all good novelists are, sooner or later, popular.
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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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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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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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