"The way that I work is that I try to work in metaphors, and you can't write a metaphor unless you know where you're going, so I always think about the future."

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I have more self-doubt than any writer I've ever known.... The positive aspect of self-doubt - if you can channel it into useful activity instead of being paralyzed by it - is that by the time you reach the end of a novel, you know precisely why you made every decision in the narrative, the multiple purposes of every metaphor and image.

— Dean Koontz