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What we do as a society is seek simple answers.

~Dean Koontz

Topics: Answers Seek Simple Society

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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.

~Dean Koontz

Topics: Admit Context Damaging Find Moral Movie Offensive Potentially Society Think Violence Watch Which I Think

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

~Dean Koontz

Topics: Because Beings Comic Human Human Beings Life Novel Personal Personal Life Then

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I have avoided becoming stale by putting a little water on the plate, lying on the plate, and having myself refreshed in a toaster oven for 23 minutes once every month.

~Dean Koontz

Topics: Avoided Becoming Every Having Little Lying Minutes Month Myself Once Oven Plate Putting Refreshed Stale Toaster Water

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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.

~Dean Koontz

Topics: Also Having Like Love Making Novel Pain Pleasure Pulled Sometimes Tooth While Writing

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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.

~Dean Koontz

Topics: Author Character Empathetic Genre Get Involvement Long Matter Readers Sense Stay Story Style Variations Will

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

~Dean Koontz

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If you want to publish two books a year under your own name and your publisher doesn't, maybe you need a different publisher.

~Dean Koontz

Topics: Books Different Maybe Name Need Own Publish Publisher Two Want Year You Your

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Never, never try to scope the market.

~Dean Koontz

Topics: Market Never Scope Try

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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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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: July 9th, 1945

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