Readers will stay with an author, no matter what the variations in style and genre, as long as they get that sense of story, of character, of empathetic involvement.

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• Dean Koontz:

  If you have to pay the bills, and you write something you're not proud of, use a pen-name for that.

• Dean Koontz:

  If you want to publish two books a year under your own name and your publisher doesn't, maybe you n

• Dean Koontz:

  Never, never try to scope the market.

• Dean Koontz:

  If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that's more than just entertai

• Dean Koontz:

  We are coming out of a century that was taught that one way of looking at the world, that one form

• Dean Koontz:

  Civilization rests on the fact that most people do the right thing most of the time.

• Dean Koontz:

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

• Dean Koontz:

  What we do as a society is seek simple answers.

• Dean Koontz:

  There's sometimes a weird benefit to having an alcoholic, violent father. He really motivated me in

• Dean Koontz:

  I really believe that everyone has a talent, ability, or skill that he can mine to support himself