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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. "
Dean Koontz
Head
Will
Wrong
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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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" Vladimir Nabokov said the two great evils of the 20th century were Marx and Freud. He was absolutely correct. "
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Said
Correct
Evils
" 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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Think
" I think it's perfectly just to refuse service to anyone based on behavior, but not based on race or religion. "
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Think
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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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Desire
Writing
Talking
" 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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Little
Lying
Month
" 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
Write
Reason
" 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. "
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Life
Real Life
Own
" 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. "
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Life
Why
Past
" When I'm working on a novel, I work 70-hour weeks. "
Dean Koontz
Novel
Working
Weeks
" Sometimes there is no darker place than our thoughts, the moonless midnight of the mind. "
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Place
Sometimes
Than
" I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari. "
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Books
New
Sometimes
" 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
Hands
Us
Time
" Writing a novel is like making love, but it's also like having a tooth pulled. Pleasure and pain. Sometimes it's like making love while having a tooth pulled. "
Dean Koontz
Pain
Writing
Love
" 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. "
Dean Koontz
Long
Character
Matter
" 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. "
Dean Koontz
Page
Good
Day
" 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. "
Dean Koontz
Politics
Life
Problems
" If I drive myself to the brink of my ability, then I don't get stale or bored. "
Dean Koontz
Then
Drive
Bored
" 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. "
Dean Koontz
Moral
Find
Society
" If someone wrote it and it had a peculiar twist, I've read it. "
Dean Koontz
Someone
Read
Peculiar
" 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. "
Dean Koontz
Storm
Hope
Love
" 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. "
Dean Koontz
I Can
Choice
Election
" 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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Long
Wish
Years
" 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
" Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool. "
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Fool
Nothing
Desire
" Your mind always does worse things than people can show in a movie. "
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Always
Your
Things
" Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish. "
Dean Koontz
Flourish
Most
Strict
" When tempest tossed, embrace chaos. "
Dean Koontz
Chaos
Tossed
Tempest
" In my personal life, I'm a comic novel. But then, so are we all, because we're human beings. "
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Because
Human
Life
" 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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Want
Need
Name