American - Author | July 9, 1945 -
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.
Dean Koontz
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Sometimes there is no darker place than our thoughts, the moonless midnight of the mind.
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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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When tempest tossed, embrace chaos.
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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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Human beings can always be relied upon to exert, with vigor, their God-given right to be stupid.
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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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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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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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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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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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