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Dean Koontz
July 9, 1945 -
Nationality: American
Category: Author
Subcategory: American Author

Civilization rests on the fact that most people do the right thing most of the time.

   

Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish.

   

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.

   

I have been reading Stephen King since CARRIE and hope to read him for many years to come.

   

Although I've said a million times that I'm not a horror writer, I do like horror.

   

If you have to pay the bills, and you write something you're not proud of, use a pen-name for that.

   

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.

   

Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool.

   

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.

   

When I'm working on a novel, I work 70-hour weeks.

   

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.

   

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.

   

I think the world is full of evil people. I think in some ways we're in more danger now than before.

   

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.

   

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.

   

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.

   

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.

   

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.

   

When tempest tossed, embrace chaos.

   

In my personal life, I'm a comic novel. But then, so are we all, because we're human beings.

   

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