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" 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
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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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" In my personal life, I'm a comic novel. But then, so are we all, because we're human beings. "
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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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" 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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" Civilization rests on the fact that most people do the right thing most of the time. "
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" A fanatic is a nut who has something to believe in. "
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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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" If I drive myself to the brink of my ability, then I don't get stale or bored. "
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" Human beings can always be relied upon to exert, with vigor, their God-given right to be stupid. "
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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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" Although I've said a million times that I'm not a horror writer, I do like horror. "
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" I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari. "
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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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" 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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" Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish. "
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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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" Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool. "
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Desire
" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" I really believe that everyone has a talent, ability, or skill that he can mine to support himself and to succeed in life. "
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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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" 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 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. "
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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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" 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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" Never, never try to scope the market. "
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" 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. "
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