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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.
Dean Koontz
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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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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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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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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.
Dean Koontz
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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.
Dean Koontz
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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.
Dean Koontz
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Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish.
Dean Koontz
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Each reader needs to bring his or her own mind and heart to the text.
Dean Koontz
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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
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Civilization rests on the fact that most people do the right thing most of the time.
Dean Koontz
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Vladimir Nabokov said the two great evils of the 20th century were Marx and Freud. He was absolutely correct.
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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