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“Books showed me that there were other ways to live a life.”

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Renowned American author known for his suspense and horror novels. He has been writing since the 1970s and his works have been widely popular, winning numerous international awards. more

“It may sound strange, but when you're a kid and you're in that environment, for some reason for a long time you think, when the doors are closed in other houses, this is what it's like everywhere. And then at some point you begin to realize that isn't true, and books were really the educational system that showed me that there were many better and different ways to live a life.”

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Author:Dean Koontz

“I fall down on the side of free will, simply because if you look at where I came from, and what I was able to do in my life, what was able to happen.”

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Author:Dean Koontz

“I imagined a life that turned out to be pretty much exactly like the one I've had. That fascinates me endlessly. I wake up many mornings, and it almost wouldn't surprise me if I woke up from it and it was all a dream.”

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“I come down on the side of free will but I have sympathy for those who believe in fate because there is something about life which we feel we have no control over.”

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“I am basically a pretty good autodidact. I can teach myself things.”

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Author:Dean Koontz

“For those that are working part time, in small businesses, or who are unemployed and do not currently have health insurance, we want to make sure that you are covered.”

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“There's still a fascination with somebody who can write at book length, no matter what the book is.”

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Author:Dean Koontz

“I realized you might make money at writing, and you might even make a living at it. So after that I didn't write stories just for the class but wrote them for the purpose of submitting them somewhere, and at some point in the process, I began writing them just to please myself and that's where you begin to see the real value of a life of writing.”

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Author:Dean Koontz

“While I like people, I do also like being alone in a room and seeing what you can do with a particular theme or subject.”

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Author:Dean Koontz

“I've always operated with a great deal of self-doubt. Every time I start a new book it's like, well, this one will destroy the career and I have to overcome that feeling especially in the first hundred pages of the book.”

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Author:Dean Koontz

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