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Dean Koontz Biography

Dean Ray Koontz (born July 9, 1945) is an American author. His novels are broadly described as suspense thrillers, but also frequently incorporate elements of horror, fantasy, science fiction, mystery, and satire. Many of his books have appeared on The New York Times Bestseller List, with 14 hardcovers and 14 paperbacks reaching the number-one position. Koontz wrote under a number of pen names earlier in his career, including "David Axton", "Leigh Nichols", and "Brian Coffey". He has sold over 450 million copies of his work as reported on his official website.

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The more you expect from life, the more your expectations will be fulfilled. By laughing, you do not use up your laughter, but increase your store of it. The more you love, the more you will be loved. The more you give, the more you will receive. Life proves that truth every hour, every day. And life continues to surprise.

Expect, Giving, Hour, Laughing, Laughter, Life

Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life--and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next.

Friends, Friendship, Real Friends, See, Things, World

Is rule of thumb in writing game: if story requires many long descriptions of smells so vile that will give reader nausea, is not likely to find publisher.

Descriptions, Games, Requires, Rule, Smell, Writing

In our age, self-indulgence and self-destruction, rather than self-sacrifice, are the foundations for new heroic myths.

Foundations, Hero, Heroic, Myths, Sacrifice, Self

Without trust, there can be no tranquil resting of the mind.

Mind, Resting, Tranquil, Trust, Without Trust

Have fun, entertain yourself with your work, make yourself laugh and cry with your own stories, make yourself shiver in suspense along with your characters. If you can do that, then you will most likely find a large audience; but even if a large audience is never found, you'll have a happy life.

Character, Cry, Fun, Happy Life, Likely

Each book is a mind alive, a life revealed, a world awaiting exploration, but living people are all those things, as well—and more, because their stories haven’t yet been completely told.

Book, Mind, People, Revealed, World

You have to stop worrying about looking foolish, 'cause fear of being humiliated really limits you.

Causes, Limits, Looking, Stop, Worry

In this uncertain space between birth and death, especially here at the end of the world in Moonlight Bay, we need hope as surely as we need food and water, love and friendship.

Friendship, Love And Friendship, Space, Water, World

We are not, however, a species that can choose the baggage with which we must travel. In spite of our best intentions, we always find that we have brought along a suitcase or two of darkness and despair.

Baggage, Choose, Darkness, Despair, Travel, Two

His blue eyes were seas where sorrow sailed.

Blue, Eye, Eyes, Sailed, Sea

Some argued that the youth of today were poorly educated and insufficiently industrious, but one of them had sought to validate his generation by spending considerable time and effort chiseling an obscene word in the concrete picnic table, and he had spelled it correctly.

Argued, Effort, Generations, Industrious, Validate, Youth Of Today

We have a responsibility to stand watch over one another, we are watchers, all of us, watchers, guarding against the darkness.

Darkness, Responsibility, Stand, Watchers, Watches

In the belly of Leviathan. . . one can either despair and perish, or be cheerful and persevere.

Cheerful, Despair, Leviathan, Perish

Golden retrievers are not bred to be guard dogs, and considering the size of their hearts and their irrepressible joy in life, they are less likely to bite than to bark, less likely to bark than to lick a hand in greeting. In spite of their size, they think they are lap dogs, and in spite of being dogs, they think they are also human, and nearly every human they meet is judged to have the potential to be a boon companion who might, at many moment, cry, "Let's go!" and lead them on a great adventure.

Adventure, Bark, Boon, Dog, Heart, Human

Narcissists are everywhere in this ripe age of self-love, which amazes me because so much in life would seem to foster humility. Each of us is a potential source of foolishness, each of us must endure the consequences of the foolishness of others, and in addition to all of that, Nature frequently works to impress upon us our absurdity and thereby remind us that we are not the masters of the universe that we like to suppose we are. - Odd Thomas - Odd Apocalypse by Dean Koontz pg 62 chapter 8

Addition, Age, Apocalypse, Humility, Self, Thomas

He is different, and there will be many people you love who will be unhappy with you. You don’t want them to feel you’ve dishonored them. Yes, I know how it is. But life is short. A chance for great happiness doesn’t come along all that often.

Dishonored, Life Is Short, Love, People, Short, Unhappy

And the funny thing was if you made the best of it, if you smiled through every storm, the bad things were never as terrible as you expected them to be, and the good things were better than anything you could have wished for yourself.

Bad, Funny Things, Good Things, Storm, Terrible

I try not to spend too much time on partisan politics. Life's too short for that. I don't really believe that there have been many human problems solved by politics.

Believe, Life Is Short, Solved, Spend, Time, Trying

Dare we linger, dare we skate? Dare we laugh or celebrate, knowing we may strain the ice? Preserve the ice at any price?

Ice, Knowing, Laughing, Preserve

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