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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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" 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. "

Dean Koontz

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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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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

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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. "

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

" Never, never try to scope the market. "

" 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. "

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

" I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Readers will stay with an author, no matter what the variations in style and genre, as long as they get that sense of story, of character, of empathetic involvement. "

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

" 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. "

" Your mind always does worse things than people can show in a movie. "

" 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 think it's the people who have no doubt that every word they put down is gold that probably don't write very well. "

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

" 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 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 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. "

" 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. "