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I have been reading Stephen King since CARRIE and hope to read him for many years to come.

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Dean Koontz
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 9
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I have more self-doubt than any writer I've ever known.... The positive aspect of self-doubt - if you can channel it into useful activity instead of being paralyzed by it - is that by the time you reach the end of a novel, you know precisely why you made every decision in the narrative, the multiple purposes of every metaphor and image.
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If we were always conscious of the fact that people precious to us are frighteningly mortal, hanging not even by a thread, but by a wisp of gossamer, perhaps we would be kinder to them and more grateful for the love and friendship they give to us.
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While I like people, I do also like being alone in a room and seeing what you can do with a particular theme or subject.
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I never discuss a novel while I'm writing it, for fear that talking about it will diminish my desire to write it.
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It was one of those rare times when remembering the dead was more inmportant than tending to the needs of the living.
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The brain acknowledged the approach of death while the heart stubbornly insisted upon immortality.
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One man's idea of perfect order is another man's chaos.
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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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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 is music that speaks to the deepest reaches of your soul, and you are lifted higher, ever higher, by the adagio, in my opinion more so even than in any of the masses that Beethoven composed.
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He is different, and there will be many people you love who will be unhappy with you. You don’t want them to feel you’ve dishonored them. Yes, I know how it is. But life is short. A chance for great happiness doesn’t come along all that often.
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The human imagination may be the most elastic thing in the universe, stretching to encompass the millions of dreams that in centuries of relectless struggle built modern civilization, to entertain the endless doubts that hamper every human enterprise, and to conceive the vast menagerie of boogeymen that trouble every human heart.
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One of the greatest gifts we receive from dogs is the tenderness they evoke in us
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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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Don't tell me what's necessary, you presumptupus pup. What's necessary is whatever I wish to do, regardless of how unnecessary it might be.
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Recognizing the structure of your psychology doesn't mean that you can easily rebuild it.
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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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Only the human spirit can act with volition and consciously change itself it is the only thing in all creation that is not entirely at the mercy of forces outside itself.
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here in the summer desert, winter found my blood
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The less depth a belief system has, the greater the fervency with which its adherents embrace it. The most vociferous, the most fanatical are those whose cobbled faith is founded on the shakiest grounds.
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