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" 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
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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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" A politician's goal is always to manipulate public debate. I think there are some politicians with higher goals. But all of them get corrupted by power. "
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" A fanatic is a nut who has something to believe in. "
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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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" I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari. "
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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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" 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. "
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" If someone wrote it and it had a peculiar twist, I've read it. "
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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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" Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool. "
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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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" When tempest tossed, embrace chaos. "
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Tossed
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" Never, never try to scope the market. "
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Market
Never
Scope
" 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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" 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. "
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Escape
House
" Sometimes there is no darker place than our thoughts, the moonless midnight of the mind. "
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Sometimes
Than
" Civilization rests on the fact that most people do the right thing most of the time. "
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People
Do The Right Thing
" 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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Find
Society
" 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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Support
" Although I've said a million times that I'm not a horror writer, I do like horror. "
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Horror
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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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World
Behavior
Evil
" What we do as a society is seek simple answers. "
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Simple
Society
Seek
" 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. "
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Write
Think
People
" 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. "
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I Can
Choice
Election
" In my personal life, I'm a comic novel. But then, so are we all, because we're human beings. "
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Human
Life
" If I drive myself to the brink of my ability, then I don't get stale or bored. "
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" Your mind always does worse things than people can show in a movie. "
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Things
" 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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People
" I have been reading Stephen King since CARRIE and hope to read him for many years to come. "
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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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