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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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Dean Koontz
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 9
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Creating a family in this turbulent world is an act of faith, a wager that against all odds there will be a future, that love can last, that the heart can triumph against all adversities and even against the grinding wheel of time.
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The world is full of broken people. Splints, casts, miracle drugs, and time can't mend fractured hearts, wounded hearts, wounded minds, torn spirits.
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Hope, however, isn't all that's needed to achieve change. Hope is a hand extended, but two hands are required to be pulled out of this deep hole. The second hand was faith.
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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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Some lives, conducted with grace, are beautiful arcs bridging this world to eternity.
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Your sense of responsibility to others can never be excessive.
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Pain is all I know. He murmured. Peace is all I want
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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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Is rule of thumb in writing game: if story requires many long descriptions of smells so vile that will give reader nausea, is not likely to find publisher.
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No one can tell you what your heart should feel.
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Each book is a mind alive, a life revealed, a world awaiting exploration, but living people are all those things, as well—and more, because their stories haven’t yet been completely told.
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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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She says what holds their marriage together is that she feels too damn sorry for him to ask for a divorce.
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When a liar became too skilled at deception, he could lose the ability to discern truth, and could himself be more easily deceived.
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The hatred of truth is the taproot of violence.
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One man's idea of perfect order is another man's chaos.
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