Well, Mr Thomas, while I'm in favour of education, I couldn't in good conscience recommend a university career in anything but the hard sciences. As a working environment, the rest of academia is a sewer of irrationality, hate mongering, envy, and self-interest. I'm getting out the moment I earn my twenty-five-year pension package, and then I'm going to write novels... Dean Koontz
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  1. A novel is never anything but a philosophy expressed in images. And in a good novel the philosophy has disappeared into the images. - Albert Camus

  2. Semua orang pernah patah hati. All you have to do is move on. - Nina Ardianti

  3. If you only write when you’re inspired you may be a fairly decent poet, but you’ll never be a novelist because you’re going to have to make your word count today and those words aren’t going to wait for you whether you’re inspired or not.... - Neil Gaiman

  4. A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film. - Lorrie Moore

  5. In writing a novel, when in doubt, have two guys come through the door with guns. - Raymond Chandler

More Quotes By Dean Koontz
  1. No matter how close we are to another person, few human relationships are as free from strife, disagreement, and frustration as is the relationship you have with a good dog. Few human beings give of themselves to another as a dog gives of itself. I...

  2. When we make our own misery we sometimes cling to it even when we want so bad to change, because misery is something we know. The misery is comfortable.

  3. Change isn't easy. Changing the way you live means changing the way you think, means changing what you believe about life. That's hard.

  4. Fate isn’t one straight road…there are forks in it, many different routes to different ends. We have the free will to choose the path.

  5. The truth was stranger than the official fiction.

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