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Dean Koontz

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Dean Koontz
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 9
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As much as I've produced it looks to people like I must have written quickly, but it isn't that - because I put in in a sixty- or seventy-hour week.
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I see dead people. But, then by God, I do something about it!
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The desire to write well can never be fulfilled without hard work.
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Every life is complicated, every mind a kingdom of unmapped mysteries.
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The only reason I would write a sequel is if I were struck by an idea that I felt to be equal to the original. Too many sequels diminish the original.
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A good dog is one of the best things of all to be.
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Every talent is unearned, however, and with it comes a solemn obligation to use it as fully and as wisely as possible.
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There's evil in the world, all right. Being aware of it makes you a realist, not a paranoid.
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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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I have advice for new writers, first of all, at any time in the history of publishing in my experience, there will be endless number people telling you that you can't do what you are trying to do. You won't succeed, there's something else you should be doing.
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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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Not all popular novelists are good, but all good novelists are, sooner or later, popular.
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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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That is, Jack thought, the way of life. The horror changes us, because we can never forget. Cursed with memory. It starts when we're old enough to know what death is and realize that sooner or later we'll lose everyone we love. We're never the same. But somehow we're all right. We go on.
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To a predator, fear indicates weakness.
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His blue eyes were seas where sorrow sailed.
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My life would be constrained by the horror and fierce rage that my appearance inspired, but I would know peace as well as fear, tenderness as well as brutality, and even love in a time of cruelty.
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Books showed me that there were other ways to live a life.
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Pain is a gift. Humanity, without pain, would know neither fear nor pity. Without fear, there could be no humility, and every man would be a monster. The recognition of pain and fear in others give rise in us to pity, and in our pity is our humanity, our redemption.
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The functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.
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