Dean Koontz Quotes

I really believe that everyone has a talent, ability, or skill that he can mine to support himself and to succeed in life.
Dean Koontz

Motivational, Life, Everyone

There's sometimes a weird benefit to having an alcoholic, violent father. He really motivated me in that I never wanted to be anything like him.
Dean Koontz

Dad, Father, Him

Somebody asked me about the current choice we're being given in the presidential election. I said, Well, it's like two of the scariest movies I can imagine.
Dean Koontz

Movies, Two, Said

A politician's goal is always to manipulate public debate. I think there are some politicians with higher goals. But all of them get corrupted by power.
Dean Koontz

Power, Goal, Public

Human beings can always be relied upon to exert, with vigor, their God-given right to be stupid.
Dean Koontz

Stupid, Human, Beings

Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.
Dean Koontz

Love, Great, Hope

Sometimes there is no darker place than our thoughts, the moonless midnight of the mind.
Dean Koontz

Mind, Thoughts, Sometimes

I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari.
Dean Koontz

Give, Sometimes, Rather

Some days I'm lucky to squeeze out a page of copy that pleases me, but I get as many as six or seven pages on a very good day; the average is probably three pages.
Dean Koontz

Good, Days, Three

I believe that I was a dog in a past life. That's the only thing that would explain why I like to snack on Purina Dog Chow.
Dean Koontz

Life, Past, Why

I don't write a quick draft and then revise; instead, I work slowly page by page, revising and polishing.
Dean Koontz

Work, Write, Quick

I think the world is full of evil people. I think in some ways we're in more danger now than before.
Dean Koontz

Evil, Before, Full

I have to admit that when I watch a movie in which there is no moral context for the violence - I find that offensive. I think that's potentially damaging to society.
Dean Koontz

Society, Find, Violence

I've not seen in my lifetime any politician who is a heroic figure. The manipulation that all politicians use on one level or another is so transparent.
Dean Koontz

Another, Seen, Level

A fanatic is a nut who has something to believe in.
Dean Koontz

Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid.
Dean Koontz

Book, Wonderful, Books

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

Time, Fact, Rests

Each reader needs to bring his or her own mind and heart to the text.
Dean Koontz

Mind, Heart, Her

I think it's perfectly just to refuse service to anyone based on behavior, but not based on race or religion.
Dean Koontz

Religion, Service, Anyone

My wife is my first audience. She's a tough lady, so I can't say that I ever scare her. Except, of course, when she sees me the way I look before breakfast.
Dean Koontz

Wife, Before, Tough

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.
Dean Koontz

Character, Long, Sense

Writing a novel is like making love, but it's also like having a tooth pulled. Pleasure and pain. Sometimes it's like making love while having a tooth pulled.
Dean Koontz

Love, Pain, Writing

Although charismatic, James Dean is no Harrison Ford. In the majority of his movies, sooner or later he got the crap beaten out of him.
Dean Koontz

Movies, Him, Majority

Although I've said a million times that I'm not a horror writer, I do like horror.
Dean Koontz

Said, Times, Writer

Because 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

Violence, Movie, Somebody

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Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: July 9, 1945

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