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" 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. "

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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. "

Dean Koontz

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" I think it's perfectly just to refuse service to anyone based on behavior, but not based on race or religion. "

" I don't find slashing and blood flying everywhere to be scary. I just find it repulsive. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" In my personal life, I'm a comic novel. But then, so are we all, because we're human beings. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" When tempest tossed, embrace chaos. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Civilization rests on the fact that most people do the right thing most of the time. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" If you want to publish two books a year under your own name and your publisher doesn't, maybe you need a different publisher. "

" If I drive myself to the brink of my ability, then I don't get stale or bored. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "