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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 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. "

Dean Koontz

Life

Why

Past

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

" 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. "

" I don't write a quick draft and then revise; instead, I work slowly page by page, revising and polishing. "

" 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. "

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

" Sometimes there is no darker place than our thoughts, the moonless midnight of the mind. "

" 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. "

" Each reader needs to bring his or her own mind and heart to the text. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

Dean Koontz

People

Going

" If someone wrote it and it had a peculiar twist, I've read it. "

" I think it's perfectly just to refuse service to anyone based on behavior, but not based on race or religion. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" A fanatic is a nut who has something to believe in. "

" 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. "

Dean Koontz

Wife

Lady

" When tempest tossed, embrace chaos. "

" I have been reading Stephen King since CARRIE and hope to read him for many years to come. "

" 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. "

" I think the world is full of evil people. I think in some ways we're in more danger now than before. "

" 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. "