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Dean Koontz (56)

Birth:	9th July, 1945
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author

About

Dean Ray Koontz is an American author best known for his novels, which can broadly be described as suspense thrillers, but also frequently incorporate elements of horror, science fiction, mystery, and satire. Several of his books have appeared on the New York Times Bestseller List, 14 hardcovers and 14 paperbacks reached the number one position.

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• The truth was stranger than the official fiction.

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• In this world only the paranoid survive.

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• Your mind always does worse things than people can show in a movie.

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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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• When tempest tossed, embrace chaos.

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

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• What we do as a society is seek simple answers.

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• We are coming out of a century that was taught that one way of looking at the world, that one form of behavior, is as valid as another. The idea of true evil has been blown away.

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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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• 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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• 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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• Sometimes there is no darker place than our thoughts, the moonless midnight of the mind.

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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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• Some days I’m lucky to squeeze out a page of copy that pleases me, but I get as many as six or seven pages on a very good day; the average is probably three pages.

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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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• One of the things I like enormously about Bob Weinstein is that that he’s the only studio head I have ever known who will change his mind and say he was wrong.

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

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• Never, never try to scope the market.

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• My wife is my first audience. She’s a tough lady, so I can’t say that I ever scare her. Except, of course, when she sees me the way I look before breakfast.

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

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