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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
Us
Time
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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'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. "
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" 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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" 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
" 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
" 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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Some
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Think
" 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. "
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Writing
Love
" 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
" 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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Moral
Find
Society
" I never discuss a novel while I'm writing it, for fear that talking about it will diminish my desire to write it. "
Dean Koontz
Desire
Writing
Talking
" Never, never try to scope the market. "
Dean Koontz
Market
Never
Scope
" 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
" 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
" I think it's perfectly just to refuse service to anyone based on behavior, but not based on race or religion. "
Dean Koontz
Service
Think
Religion
" Civilization rests on the fact that most people do the right thing most of the time. "
Dean Koontz
Time
People
Do The Right Thing
" I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari. "
Dean Koontz
Books
New
Sometimes
" Although I've said a million times that I'm not a horror writer, I do like horror. "
Dean Koontz
Horror
Said
Writer
" If someone wrote it and it had a peculiar twist, I've read it. "
Dean Koontz
Someone
Read
Peculiar
" 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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Write
Think
People
" When I'm working on a novel, I work 70-hour weeks. "
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Novel
Working
Weeks
" Vladimir Nabokov said the two great evils of the 20th century were Marx and Freud. He was absolutely correct. "
Dean Koontz
Said
Correct
Evils
" 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. "
Dean Koontz
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. "
Dean Koontz
Original
Write
Reason
" If I drive myself to the brink of my ability, then I don't get stale or bored. "
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Then
Drive
Bored
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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. "
Dean Koontz
World
Behavior
Evil
" 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. "
Dean Koontz
Weird
Him
Father