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" 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. "
Dean Koontz
Politicians
Manipulation
Politician
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" Your mind always does worse things than people can show in a movie. "
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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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" 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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" If I drive myself to the brink of my ability, then I don't get stale or bored. "
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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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Society
" I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari. "
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" I never discuss a novel while I'm writing it, for fear that talking about it will diminish my desire to write it. "
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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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" 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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" 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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Book
Escape
House
" 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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Support
Writing
People
" Human beings can always be relied upon to exert, with vigor, their God-given right to be stupid. "
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Stupid
Right
Human
" 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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" I don't find slashing and blood flying everywhere to be scary. I just find it repulsive. "
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" 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
" What we do as a society is seek simple answers. "
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Simple
Society
Seek
" Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish. "
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Flourish
Most
Strict
" A fanatic is a nut who has something to believe in. "
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" If someone wrote it and it had a peculiar twist, I've read it. "
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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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" 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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" 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 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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" Civilization rests on the fact that most people do the right thing most of the time. "
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People
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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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Head
Will
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