Your mind always does worse things than people can show in a movie.

Quote by Dean Koontz

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Perhaps extreme danger strips us of all pretenses, all ambitions, all confusions, focusing us more...

Perhaps extreme danger strips us of all pretenses, all ambitions, all confusions, focusing us more...

Because people see violence on the movie screen, they're not going to go out and...

Because people see violence on the movie screen, they're not going to go out and...

I have avoided becoming stale by putting a little water on the plate, lying on...

I have avoided becoming stale by putting a little water on the plate, lying on...

I think the world is full of evil people. I think in some ways we're...

I think the world is full of evil people. I think in some ways we're...

I don't write a quick draft and then revise; instead, I work slowly page by...

I don't write a quick draft and then revise; instead, I work slowly page by...

Although charismatic, James Dean is no Harrison Ford. In the majority of his movies, sooner...

Although charismatic, James Dean is no Harrison Ford. In the majority of his movies, sooner...

I try not to spend too much time on partisan politics. Life's too short for...

I try not to spend too much time on partisan politics. Life's too short for...

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

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

If you want to publish two books a year under your own name and your...

If you want to publish two books a year under your own name and your...

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

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

If someone wrote it and it had a peculiar twist, I've read it.

If someone wrote it and it had a peculiar twist, I've read it.

Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn...

Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn...

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

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

Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no...

Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no...

Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish.

Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish.

The hands of every clock are shears, trimming us away scrap by scrap, and every...

The hands of every clock are shears, trimming us away scrap by scrap, and every...

Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear...

Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear...

My wife is my first audience. She's a tough lady, so I can't say that...

My wife is my first audience. She's a tough lady, so I can't say that...

When tempest tossed, embrace chaos.

When tempest tossed, embrace chaos.

Never, never try to scope the market.

Never, never try to scope the market.