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My wife is my first audience. She's a tough lady, so I can't say that I ever scare her. Except, of course, when she sees me the way I look before breakfast.

Dean Koontz

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Dean Koontz
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 9
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here in the summer desert, winter found my blood
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Every life is complicated, every mind a kingdom of unmapped mysteries.
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Writing isn't a source of pain. It's psychic chemotherapy. It reduces your psychological tumors and relieves your pain.
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I don't write a quick draft and then revise instead, I work slowly page by page, revising and polishing.
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Loving the ideal more than the reality is the cause of all the misery the human species creates for itself.
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