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I've always operated with a great deal of self-doubt. Every time I start a new book it's like, well, this one will destroy the career and I have to overcome that feeling especially in the first hundred pages of the book.

Dean Koontz

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Dean Koontz
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 9
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