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" I don't find slashing and blood flying everywhere to be scary. I just find it repulsive. "
Dean Koontz
Just
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Flying
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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. "
Dean Koontz
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People
Danger
" 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. "
Dean Koontz
Support
Writing
People
" A fanatic is a nut who has something to believe in. "
Dean Koontz
Believe
Who
Fanatic
" 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
" If I drive myself to the brink of my ability, then I don't get stale or bored. "
Dean Koontz
Then
Drive
Bored
" I receive about 10,000 letters a year from readers, and in the first year after a book is published, perhaps 5,000 letters will deal specifically with that piece of work. "
Dean Koontz
Work
Year
Will
" Each reader needs to bring his or her own mind and heart to the text. "
Dean Koontz
Her
Mind
Own
" Your mind always does worse things than people can show in a movie. "
Dean Koontz
Always
Your
Things
" 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. "
Dean Koontz
Politicians
Manipulation
Politician
" 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. "
Dean Koontz
Moral
Find
Society
" 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. "
Dean Koontz
Original
Write
Reason
" I have been reading Stephen King since CARRIE and hope to read him for many years to come. "
Dean Koontz
Hope
King
Reading
" I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari. "
Dean Koontz
Books
New
Sometimes
" I think it's the people who have no doubt that every word they put down is gold that probably don't write very well. "
Dean Koontz
Write
Think
People
" 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. "
Dean Koontz
Storm
Hope
Love
" 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. "
Dean Koontz
Weird
Him
Father
" I think it's perfectly just to refuse service to anyone based on behavior, but not based on race or religion. "
Dean Koontz
Service
Think
Religion
" Although charismatic, James Dean is no Harrison Ford. In the majority of his movies, sooner or later he got the crap beaten out of him. "
Dean Koontz
Beaten
Majority
Movies
" 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. "
Dean Koontz
Like
Humor
Equal
" Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish. "
Dean Koontz
Flourish
Most
Strict
" Human beings can always be relied upon to exert, with vigor, their God-given right to be stupid. "
Dean Koontz
Stupid
Right
Human
" 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. "
Dean Koontz
Wife
Lady
Me
" 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. "
Dean Koontz
People
Go
Going
" Vladimir Nabokov said the two great evils of the 20th century were Marx and Freud. He was absolutely correct. "
Dean Koontz
Said
Correct
Evils
" I really believe that everyone has a talent, ability, or skill that he can mine to support himself and to succeed in life. "
Dean Koontz
Life
Motivational
Support
" I never discuss a novel while I'm writing it, for fear that talking about it will diminish my desire to write it. "
Dean Koontz
Desire
Writing
Talking
" Sometimes there is no darker place than our thoughts, the moonless midnight of the mind. "
Dean Koontz
Place
Sometimes
Than
" 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. "
Dean Koontz
Page
Good
Day
" If you want to publish two books a year under your own name and your publisher doesn't, maybe you need a different publisher. "
Dean Koontz
Want
Need
Name
" 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