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" I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari. "
Dean Koontz
Books
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Sometimes
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" I have been reading Stephen King since CARRIE and hope to read him for many years to come. "
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" 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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" 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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" 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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" Although I've said a million times that I'm not a horror writer, I do like horror. "
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" I've got a long list of books I wish I'd never written-and I've kept them all out of print for the past 20 years. "
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" I don't write a quick draft and then revise; instead, I work slowly page by page, revising and polishing. "
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" Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid. "
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" Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool. "
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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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" I try not to spend too much time on partisan politics. Life's too short for that. I don't really believe that there have been many human problems solved by politics. "
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" Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish. "
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" A fanatic is a nut who has something to believe in. "
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" I don't find slashing and blood flying everywhere to be scary. I just find it repulsive. "
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" The hands of every clock are shears, trimming us away scrap by scrap, and every time piece with a digital readout blinks us towards implosion. "
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" In my personal life, I'm a comic novel. But then, so are we all, because we're human beings. "
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" Your mind always does worse things than people can show in a movie. "
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" Sometimes there is no darker place than our thoughts, the moonless midnight of the mind. "
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" I think the world is full of evil people. I think in some ways we're in more danger now than before. "
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" 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. "
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" Each reader needs to bring his or her own mind and heart to the text. "
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" 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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" When tempest tossed, embrace chaos. "
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" Every book has some real life in it. I was never pursued by an evil twin clone, but everything else in MR. MURDER was pretty much out of my own life. "
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" 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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" Somebody asked me about the current choice we're being given in the presidential election. I said, Well, it's like two of the scariest movies I can imagine. "
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" I have to admit that when I watch a movie in which there is no moral context for the violence - I find that offensive. I think that's potentially damaging to society. "
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" If someone wrote it and it had a peculiar twist, I've read it. "
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" I have avoided becoming stale by putting a little water on the plate, lying on the plate, and having myself refreshed in a toaster oven for 23 minutes once every month. "
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