#we

Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns. ↗

— Willem de Kooning

#behind #columns #felt #fraud #greeks

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

#corrupted #debate #get #goal #goals

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

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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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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

The only reason I would write a sequel is if I were struck by an idea that I felt to be equal to the original. Too many sequels diminish the original. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#equal #felt #i #idea #many

Vladimir Nabokov said the two great evils of the 20th century were Marx and Freud. He was absolutely correct. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#absolutely #century #correct #evils #freud

What we do as a society is seek simple answers. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#seek #simple #society

When I'm working on a novel, I work 70-hour weeks. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#novel #weeks #work #working

My experience with the Junior League, when I worked in Philadelphia for four years in reference to children's things, is that whenever they were asked they responded. They always responded with sincerity, and they did a good job. ↗

— C. Everett Koop

#asked #children #did #experience #four