If Edgar Allan Poe were alive today, his agent would be constantly slapping him upside the head with tightly rolled copies of his brilliant short stories and novelettes, yelling, 'Full-length novels, you moron! Pay attention! What's the matter with you -- are you shooting heroin or something? Write for the market! No more of this midlength 'Fall of the House of Usher' crap
Dean KoontzThe world howls for social justice, but when it comes to social responsibility, you sometimes cant even hear crickets chirping.
Dean KoontzI don't find slashing and blood flying everywhere to be scary. I just find it repulsive.
Dean KoontzBecause people see violence on the movie screen, they're not going to go out and hold up a liquor store and kill somebody. It really doesn't correlate.
Dean Koontz