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Not all popular novelists are good, but all good novelists are, sooner or later, popular.

Dean Koontz

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Dean Koontz
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 9
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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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Despair is good. Despair can be the nadir of one life and the starting point of an ascent into another, better one.
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I'm alive but I have no life. I'm alive but also dead. I'm dead and alive.
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Living in the modern age, death for virtue is the wage. So it seems in darker hours. Evil wins, kindness cowers. Ruled by violence and vice we all stand upon thin ice. Are we brave or are we mice, here upon such thin, thin ice? Dare we linger, dare we skate? Dare we laugh or celebrate, knowing we may strain the ice? Preserve the ice at any price?
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All but universally, human architecture values front elevations over back entrances, public spaces over private. Danny Jessup says that this aspect of architecture is also a reflection of human nature, that most people care more about their appearance than they do about their souls.
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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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...I felt fear enter the halls of my mind, but I didn't give it the keys to every room.
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Each reader needs to bring his or her own mind and heart to the text.
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We are coming out of a century that was taught that one way of looking at the world, that one form of behavior, is as valid as another. The idea of true evil has been blown away.
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It will all be better in the end and if it is not better then it must not be the end yet
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Not funny ha ha, funny weird.
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We're out of cocktail olives, it's a tragedy of historic proportions, but we're coping because we're Americans.
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All I ask of Fate is that the people she hurls into my life, whether they are evil or good, or morally bipolar, should be amusing to one degree or another.... The problem is finding smile-inducing evil people, because the evil are the most humorless, though in the movies they frequently get some of the best lines.
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The only thing I know for sure is how much I do not know.
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Reality isn't what it used to be.
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I think it's perfectly just to refuse service to anyone based on behavior, but not based on race or religion.
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You can't always win arguments as a writer, but you have to just go ahead and say, well, I'm doing it that way anyway.
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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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We need to laugh at the irrationality of evil, for in doing so we deny evil's power over us, diminish its influence in the world, and tarnish the allure it has for some people.
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The process, not the final achievement, is what it's all about.
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