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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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" 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. "

Dean Koontz

Life

Real Life

Own

" 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. "

" Although I've said a million times that I'm not a horror writer, I do like horror. "

" 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. "

" What we do as a society is seek simple answers. "

" If someone wrote it and it had a peculiar twist, I've read it. "

" A fanatic is a nut who has something to believe in. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Dean Koontz

Hands

Time

" When tempest tossed, embrace chaos. "

" Never, never try to scope the market. "

" 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. "

" 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

Humor

Equal

" 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

Going

" I really believe that everyone has a talent, ability, or skill that he can mine to support himself and to succeed in life. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Vladimir Nabokov said the two great evils of the 20th century were Marx and Freud. He was absolutely correct. "

" 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. "

" I don't write a quick draft and then revise; instead, I work slowly page by page, revising and polishing. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" When I'm working on a novel, I work 70-hour weeks. "

" Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool. "

" I have been reading Stephen King since CARRIE and hope to read him for many years to come. "

" Human beings can always be relied upon to exert, with vigor, their God-given right to be stupid. "

" If you have to pay the bills, and you write something you're not proud of, use a pen-name for that. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "