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Although I've said a million times that I'm not a horror writer, I do like horror. ↗

— Dean Koontz

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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

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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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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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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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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

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What I took back, because of my exposure to the Jewish music of the 30s and the 40s in my upbringing with my father, was that kind of theatrical songwriting. It was always a part of my character. This desire to make people laugh. ↗

— Pete Townshend

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I began like all composers, writing for small groups. Chamber groups. ↗

— David Del Tredici

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Gatherings and, simultaneously, loneliness are the conditions of a writer's life. ↗

— Jerzy Kosinski

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I write for a certain sphere of readers in the United States who on average watch seven and a half hours of multichannel television per day. ↗

— Jerzy Kosinski

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