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Writing isn't a source of pain. It's psychic chemotherapy. It reduces your psychological tumors and relieves your pain.

Dean Koontz

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Dean Koontz
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 9
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If dogs talked, one of them would be president by now. Everybody likes dogs.
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Some lives, conducted with grace, are beautiful arcs bridging this world to eternity.
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What doesn't quicken dies. That's an indisputable truth of life.
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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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Human beings are such knotted, desperate pieces of work-it's a rare thing to know one completely, to the core, and still love him.
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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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In my books, I never portray violence as a reasonable solution to a problem. If the lead characters in the story are driven to it, it's at the extreme end of their experience.
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And the funny thing was if you made the best of it, if you smiled through every storm, the bad things were never as terrible as you expected them to be, and the good things were better than anything you could have wished for yourself.
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In the end, it's all about perseverance.
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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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A fine line separates the weary recluse from the fearful hermit. Finer still is the line between hermit and bitter misanthrope.
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Anger is a violent emotion, vindictive, and as dangerous to he who is driven by it as to anyone on whom it is turned.
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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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