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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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There are no explanations for human evil. Only excuses.
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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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I'm alive but I have no life. I'm alive but also dead. I'm dead and alive.
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The rain wasn't the usual glittering silver, but dark and dirty, as if nature were a scrubwoman wringing out a filthy mop.
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Pain is all I know. He murmured. Peace is all I want
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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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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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I like to deal with EVERY aspect of our condition, and that means terror and humor in equal mix. Some books have more room for humor than others.
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When you have dogs, you witness their uncomplaining acceptance of suffering, their bright desire to make the most of life in spite of the limitations of age and disease, their calm awareness of the approaching end when their final hours come. They accept death with a grace that I hope I will one day be brave enough to muster.
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Never, never try to scope the market.
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Your mind always does worse things than people can show in a movie.
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In the belly of Leviathan ... one can either despair and perish, or be cheerful and persevere.
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Always, beneath every apparent chaos, order waits to be revealed.
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You have to stop worrying about looking foolish, 'cause fear of being humiliated really limits you.
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Intuition is seeing with the soul.
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Too much mystery is merely an annoyance. Too much adventure is exhausting. And a little terror goes a long way.
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You can con God and get away with it, Granny said, if you do so with charm and wit. If you live your life with imagination and verve, God will play along just to see what outrageously entertaining thing you'll do next.
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What doesn't quicken dies. That's an indisputable truth of life.
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The desire to write well can never be fulfilled without hard work.
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