#ear

Any architectural project we do takes at least four or five years, so increasingly there is a discrepancy between the acceleration of culture and the continuing slowness of architecture. ↗

— Rem Koolhaas

#any #architectural #architecture #between #continuing

When air conditioning, escalators, and advertising appeared, shopping expanded its scale, but also limited its spontaneity. And it became much more predictable, almost scientific. What had once been the most surprising became the most manipulated. ↗

— Rem Koolhaas

#air #air conditioning #almost #also #appeared

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. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#book #books #could #disappear #escape

Each reader needs to bring his or her own mind and heart to the text. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#each #heart #her #his #mind

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

— Dean Koontz

#carrie #come #him #hope #i

I never discuss a novel while I'm writing it, for fear that talking about it will diminish my desire to write it. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#desire #diminish #discuss #fear #i

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

#after #book #deal #first #i

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

#different #maybe #name #need #own

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. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#clock #digital #every #every time #hands

I am overjoyed that I do not need a heart transplant at this time. ↗

— Lech Walesa

#heart #i #i am #i do #need