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There's never any humongous next draft. I know a writer who every time he finished a novel - you would know his name very well - but his editor would come and live with him for a month. And they would go through the manuscript together.

Dean Koontz

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