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Dean Koontz

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Dean Koontz
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 9
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When life hands us a beutiful bouquet of flowers we stare at it in cautious expectation of a bee.
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There's never any humongous next draft. I know a writer who every time he finished a novel - you would know his name very well - but his editor would come and live with him for a month. And they would go through the manuscript together.
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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 admit to having an imagination feverish enough to melt good judgment.
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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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Civilization rests on the fact that most people do the right thing most of the time.
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Always, beneath every apparent chaos, order waits to be revealed.
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Evil itself may be relentless. I will grant you that, but love is relentless too. Friendship is a relentless force. Family is a relentless force. Faith is relentless force. The human spirit is relentless, and the human heart outlasts - and can defeat - even the most relentless force of all, which is time.
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Not all popular novelists are good, but all good novelists are, sooner or later, popular.
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If wishes were filet mignon, we'd always eat well at dinner
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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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I've always operated with a great deal of self-doubt. Every time I start a new book it's like, well, this one will destroy the career and I have to overcome that feeling especially in the first hundred pages of the book.
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One man's idea of perfect order is another man's chaos.
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Some lives, conducted with grace, are beautiful arcs bridging this world to eternity.
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Books had shown me, however, that all people everywhere wanted their lives to have purpose and meaning. This longing was universal.
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In our age, self-indulgence and self-destruction, rather than self-sacrifice, are the foundations for new heroic myths.
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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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There's still a fascination with somebody who can write at book length, no matter what the book is.
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Your mind always does worse things than people can show in a movie.
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Home is the first refuge from - and last defense against - the disappointments and the terrors of life.
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