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" 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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" 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

Time

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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

" 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. "

" 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

" Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish. "

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

" When I'm working on a novel, I work 70-hour weeks. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari. "

" When tempest tossed, embrace chaos. "

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

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

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

" Vladimir Nabokov said the two great evils of the 20th century were Marx and Freud. He was absolutely correct. "

" Never, never try to scope the market. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "