Dean Koontz Quotes
I never discuss a novel while I'm writing it, for fear that talking about it will diminish my desire to write it.
Quotes to Explore
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You've got to be taught to hate and fear.
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I don't have any office; I can write everywhere. So, I put a piece of paper on the table, and then I travel. Literally, writing for me is like travelling. It's getting out of myself and living another life - maybe a better life.
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My fear is that people associate Rand Paul's social conservatism with libertarianism, when it's not.
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Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?
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I've been writing fiction probably since I was about 6 years old, so it's something that is second nature to me now. I just sit down and start writing. I don't sit down and start writing and it comes out perfectly - it's a process.
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I've seen the Pokemon movie, which is probably the worst movie ever made on any subject ever.
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'Seize the Story' takes readers all the way through the process of writing fiction, from beginning to end. Every element, from dialogue to setting, plotting to character creation, is laid out and illustrated with examples. But the tone of the book is not that of a dry writing manual - it's definitely written for teenagers.
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As a storyteller, when you're writing a movie and when you're directing, you want to keep people entertained. That's the whole point, right? It has to be entertaining.
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If it is indeed impossible - or at least very difficult - to inhabit the consciousness of an animal, then in writing about animals there is a temptation to project upon them feelings and thoughts that may belong only to our own human mind and heart.
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I'm not one of those people who's so blinded by my own work and my sweat. It's kind of risky writing a memoir when you're really part of a larger universe.
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I gave up writing children's books. I wanted to escape from them as I had once wanted to escape from 'Punch': as I have always wanted to escape. In vain.
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We're all terminal; none of us are getting out of this alive.
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I love the whole process for each new album. The writing, the touring, everything. For me, it never gets old.
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My motivation for being a good drummer was born out of fear, which, in a way, seems so antithetical to what art should be.
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When something comes up that attacks people's beliefs, their first reaction tends to be fear.
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I thought it was respectful to each country to sing in their language.
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I think the beauty of the writing of 'Game of Thrones' is not that the characters are fearless; it's how they overcome their fear, you know?
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The biggest challenge or biggest crisis knocking on the doors of humankind is fear and intolerance.
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Acting is easier - writing is more creative. The lazy man vies with the industrious.
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It's not that women don't feel things, we do. We fall in love, we get our hearts broken, we're disappointed and sad, but we've also been taught that you must always have your pride. Above all.
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Television is, to my mind, the most insidious drug that the 20th Century has had to deal with.
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Efficiency in government is a more elusive concept than efficiency in the private economy, which may be measured relatively easily as output per units of input. What is the government's 'output?'
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The second assault on Fallujah was a monument to brutality and atrocity made in the United States of America. Like the Spanish city of Guernica during the 1930s, and Grozny in the 1990s Fallujah is our monument of excess and overkill.
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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.
