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Readers will stay with an author, no matter what the variations in style and genre, as long as they get that sense of story, of character, of empathetic involvement.

Dean Koontz

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Dean Koontz
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 9
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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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I believe in the possibility of miracles but, more to the point, I believe in our need for them.
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I have avoided becoming stale by putting a little water on the plate, lying on the plate, and having myself refreshed in a toaster oven for 23 minutes once every month.
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In the real world as in dreams nothing is quite what it seems. -The Book of Counted Sorrows
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Some argued that the youth of today were poorly educated and insufficiently industrious, but one of them had sought to validate his generation by spending considerable time and effort chiseling an obscene word in the concrete picnic table, and he had spelled it correctly.
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None of us can ever save himself we are the instruments of one another’s salvation, and only by the hope that we give to others do we lift ourselves out of the darkness into light.
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The opportunity to love a dog and to treat it with kindness is an opportunity for a lost and selfish heart to be redeemed. They are powerless and innocent, and it is how we treat the humblest among us that surely determines the fate of our souls
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If someone wrote it and it had a peculiar twist, I've read it.
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If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that’s more than just entertainment-w hich is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people.
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I enjoy the hell out of writing but don't like what follows: promotion and publicity, which I always strive to keep to a minimum, sometimes to my publisher's dismay.
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we must seize life because we never know how much of it remains for us, that faith is the antidote to despair and that laughter is the music of faith.
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Not an insult sweetie. That was a thirteen word kiss.
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Where there is cake, there is hope. And there is always cake.
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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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Sometimes many publishers prefer that you write the same book every time, but I have a low boredom threshold so that isn't going to happen.
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There are days when it seems to me that in literature the most convincing depiction of the world in which we live is to be found in the phantasmagorical kingdom through which Lewis Carroll took Alice on a tour.
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What does worry accomplish except to breed more worry?
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When a knot gets to tight, you can always cut the rope
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After once having made the mistake of watching television news, I had worried for a while about an asteroid hitting the earth and wiping out human civilization. The anchorwoman had said it was not merely possible but probable. At the end of the report, she smiled.
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We are not strangers to ourselves, we only try to be.
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