Dean Koontz Quotes
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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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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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I'm either a mutant or a cripple, and I refuse to be a cripple. People pity cripples, but they're afraid of mutants … Fear implies respect.
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Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid.
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Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish.
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A fanatic is a nut who has something to believe in.
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… less real than such threats as a man with a gun, a woman with a knife, or a U.S. Senator with an idea.
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… mankind has no right to employ its genius in the creation of another intelligent species, then treat it like property. If we've come so far that we can create as God creates, then we have to learn to act with the justice and mercy of God.
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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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How can you hope to win against goddamn time travelers? It's like playing blackjack when the dealer is God. … Come to think of it, all of life is a blackjack game with God as the dealer, isn't it? So this is no worse.
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If someone wrote it and it had a peculiar twist, I've read it.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari.
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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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Each reader needs to bring his or her own mind and heart to the text.