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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. "
Dean Koontz
Story
Never
End
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" Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish. "
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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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" I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari. "
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" Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool. "
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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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" 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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" Sometimes there is no darker place than our thoughts, the moonless midnight of the mind. "
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" If you have to pay the bills, and you write something you're not proud of, use a pen-name for that. "
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" 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
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Election
" I have been reading Stephen King since CARRIE and hope to read him for many years to come. "
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King
Reading
" 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. "
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Character
Matter
" 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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Evil
People
Danger
" If I drive myself to the brink of my ability, then I don't get stale or bored. "
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Drive
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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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People
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Going
" If you want to publish two books a year under your own name and your publisher doesn't, maybe you need a different publisher. "
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Need
Name
" 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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Head
Will
Wrong
" My wife is my first audience. She's a tough lady, so I can't say that I ever scare her. Except, of course, when she sees me the way I look before breakfast. "
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Wife
Lady
Me
" If someone wrote it and it had a peculiar twist, I've read it. "
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Someone
Read
Peculiar
" 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
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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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Why
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Things
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" 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. "
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Original
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Reason
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Seek
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Religion