#own

An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will. ↗

— Willem de Kooning

#forced #free #free will #his #others

When I view the world, I don't think of my own work. I think of my hope that, through art, people can get a sense of the type of invisible fabric that holds us all together, that holds the world together. ↗

— Jeff Koons

#fabric #get #holds #hope #i

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

— Dean Koontz

#each #heart #her #his #mind

Every book has some real life in it. I was never pursued by an evil twin clone, but everything else in MR. MURDER was pretty much out of my own life. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#clone #else #every #everything #evil

I think it's the people who have no doubt that every word they put down is gold that probably don't write very well. ↗

— 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

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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

#bob #change #enormously #ever #head

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. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#away #been #behavior #blown #blown away

The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly playing by your own. ↗

— Michael Korda

#else #fastest #look #own #playing

If you don't believe in yourself, then who will believe in you? The next man's way of getting there might not necessarily work for me, so I have to create my own ways of getting there. ↗

— Michael Korda

#believe in yourself #create #getting #i #man