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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.
Dean Koontz
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I think the world is full of evil people. I think in some ways we're in more danger now than before.
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I believe that I was a dog in a past life. That's the only thing that would explain why I like to snack on Purina Dog Chow.
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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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Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish.
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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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Civilization rests on the fact that most people do the right thing most of the time.
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Each reader needs to bring his or her own mind and heart to the text.
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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.
Dean Koontz
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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.
Dean Koontz
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I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari.
Dean Koontz
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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.
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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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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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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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