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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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Perseverance is impossible if we don't permit ourselves to hope.
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Some days I'm lucky to squeeze out a page of copy that pleases me, but I get as many as six or seven pages on a very good day the average is probably three pages.
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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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Behind every closed door might wait a thief of minds and a collector of souls.
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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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That's all that matters, really: that we can make each other feel better.
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Not funny ha ha, funny weird.
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One door away from heaven And the key is ours to lose. One door away from heaven But oh, the entry dues.
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You have to stop worrying about looking foolish, 'cause fear of being humiliated really limits you.
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The destruction that barbarians leave behind has a grim fascination, doesn't it? We're reminded how thin is the veneer of civilization.
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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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In the real world as in dreams nothing is quite what it seems. -The Book of Counted Sorrows
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Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish.
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I survive by finding the sweet spot between reason and unreason, between the rational and irrational.
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We are not, however, a species that can choose the baggage with which we must travel. In spite of our best intentions, we always find that we have brought along a suitcase or two of darkness and despair.
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I have learned a great deal from novels. Some of it is even true.
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They said there was no rest for the wicked. In fact, there was rest neither for the virtuous nor the wicked, nor for guys like Billy, who were uncommitted regarding the whole idea of virtue versus wickedness and who were just trying to do their jobs.
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The dead are merely the countrymen of my future.
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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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What most people find important, you do not. This is Wisdom. To what you believe is important, you are ready to give your mind, heart, and soul. This is Grace.
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