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" A fanatic is a nut who has something to believe in. "
Dean Koontz
Believe
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" Writing a novel is like making love, but it's also like having a tooth pulled. Pleasure and pain. Sometimes it's like making love while having a tooth pulled. "
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" If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that's more than just entertainment-which is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people. "
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" Because people see violence on the movie screen, they're not going to go out and hold up a liquor store and kill somebody. It really doesn't correlate. "
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" Some days I'm lucky to squeeze out a page of copy that pleases me, but I get as many as six or seven pages on a very good day; the average is probably three pages. "
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Good
Day
" Human beings can always be relied upon to exert, with vigor, their God-given right to be stupid. "
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Right
Human
" Sometimes there is no darker place than our thoughts, the moonless midnight of the mind. "
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Sometimes
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" Vladimir Nabokov said the two great evils of the 20th century were Marx and Freud. He was absolutely correct. "
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Correct
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" If you want to publish two books a year under your own name and your publisher doesn't, maybe you need a different publisher. "
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Want
Need
Name
" If I drive myself to the brink of my ability, then I don't get stale or bored. "
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Drive
Bored
" Readers will stay with an author, no matter what the variations in style and genre, as long as they get that sense of story, of character, of empathetic involvement. "
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" We are coming out of a century that was taught that one way of looking at the world, that one form of behavior, is as valid as another. The idea of true evil has been blown away. "
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Behavior
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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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Like
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Equal
" One of the things I like enormously about Bob Weinstein is that that he's the only studio head I have ever known who will change his mind and say he was wrong. "
Dean Koontz
Head
Will
Wrong
" The only reason I would write a sequel is if I were struck by an idea that I felt to be equal to the original. Too many sequels diminish the original. "
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Original
Write
Reason
" Civilization rests on the fact that most people do the right thing most of the time. "
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Time
People
Do The Right Thing
" I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari. "
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Books
New
Sometimes
" I believe that I was a dog in a past life. That's the only thing that would explain why I like to snack on Purina Dog Chow. "
Dean Koontz
Life
Why
Past
" I have been reading Stephen King since CARRIE and hope to read him for many years to come. "
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Hope
King
Reading
" Although I've said a million times that I'm not a horror writer, I do like horror. "
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Horror
Said
Writer
" There's sometimes a weird benefit to having an alcoholic, violent father. He really motivated me in that I never wanted to be anything like him. "
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Weird
Him
Father
" Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love. "
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Storm
Hope
Love
" 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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Desire
Writing
Talking
" I've not seen in my lifetime any politician who is a heroic figure. The manipulation that all politicians use on one level or another is so transparent. "
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Politicians
Manipulation
Politician
" My wife is my first audience. She's a tough lady, so I can't say that I ever scare her. Except, of course, when she sees me the way I look before breakfast. "
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Wife
Lady
Me
" I don't write a quick draft and then revise; instead, I work slowly page by page, revising and polishing. "
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Draft
Page
Quick
" I think it's perfectly just to refuse service to anyone based on behavior, but not based on race or religion. "
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Service
Think
Religion
" Each reader needs to bring his or her own mind and heart to the text. "
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Her
Mind
Own
" If you have to pay the bills, and you write something you're not proud of, use a pen-name for that. "
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You
Something
" 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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Never
End
" In my personal life, I'm a comic novel. But then, so are we all, because we're human beings. "
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Because
Human
Life