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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. "
Dean Koontz
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" 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. "
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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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" Human beings can always be relied upon to exert, with vigor, their God-given right to be stupid. "
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" 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 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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" 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 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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" Never, never try to scope the market. "
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" I don't write a quick draft and then revise; instead, I work slowly page by page, revising and polishing. "
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" Although charismatic, James Dean is no Harrison Ford. In the majority of his movies, sooner or later he got the crap beaten out of him. "
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" Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish. "
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" 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. "
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" 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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" 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. "
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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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Love
" I receive about 10,000 letters a year from readers, and in the first year after a book is published, perhaps 5,000 letters will deal specifically with that piece of work. "
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Will
" Your mind always does worse things than people can show in a movie. "
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Your
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" When I'm working on a novel, I work 70-hour weeks. "
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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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" If I drive myself to the brink of my ability, then I don't get stale or bored. "
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" 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
Religion
" 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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" 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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" 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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" Sometimes there is no darker place than our thoughts, the moonless midnight of the mind. "
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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. "
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" 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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" Although I've said a million times that I'm not a horror writer, I do like horror. "
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" What we do as a society is seek simple answers. "
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" Each reader needs to bring his or her own mind and heart to the text. "
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