Dean Koontz Quotes

Every book has some real life in it. I was never pursued by an evil twin clone, but everything else in MR. MURDER was pretty much out of my own life.
Dean Koontz

Life, Evil, Book

I don't find slashing and blood flying everywhere to be scary. I just find it repulsive.
Dean Koontz

Find, Blood, Scary

I have avoided becoming stale by putting a little water on the plate, lying on the plate, and having myself refreshed in a toaster oven for 23 minutes once every month.
Dean Koontz

Once, Water, Lying

I have been reading Stephen King since CARRIE and hope to read him for many years to come.
Dean Koontz

Hope, Him, Read

I like to deal with EVERY aspect of our condition, and that means terror and humor in equal mix. Some books have more room for humor than others.
Dean Koontz

Humor, Others, Means

I never discuss a novel while I'm writing it, for fear that talking about it will diminish my desire to write it.
Dean Koontz

Fear, Writing, Write

I receive about 10,000 letters a year from readers, and in the first year after a book is published, perhaps 5,000 letters will deal specifically with that piece of work.
Dean Koontz

Work, Book, After

I think it's the people who have no doubt that every word they put down is gold that probably don't write very well.
Dean Koontz

Doubt, Down, Put

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.
Dean Koontz

Life, Politics, Time

I've got a long list of books I wish I'd never written-and I've kept them all out of print for the past 20 years.
Dean Koontz

Past, Long, Wish

If I drive myself to the brink of my ability, then I don't get stale or bored.
Dean Koontz

Bored, Ability, Drive

If someone wrote it and it had a peculiar twist, I've read it.
Dean Koontz

Someone, Read, Peculiar

If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that's more than just entertainment-which is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people.
Dean Koontz

Struggle, Writing, Lives

If you have to pay the bills, and you write something you're not proud of, use a pen-name for that.
Dean Koontz

Proud, Write, Pay

If you want to publish two books a year under your own name and your publisher doesn't, maybe you need a different publisher.
Dean Koontz

Different, Two, Year

In my books, I never portray violence as a reasonable solution to a problem. If the lead characters in the story are driven to it, it's at the extreme end of their experience.
Dean Koontz

Experience, End, Problem

In my personal life, I'm a comic novel. But then, so are we all, because we're human beings.
Dean Koontz

Life, Human, Personal

Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish.
Dean Koontz

Dead, Fiction, Literary

Never, never try to scope the market.
Dean Koontz

Try, Market, Scope

Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool.
Dean Koontz

Courage, Fool, Nothing

One of the things I like enormously about Bob Weinstein is that that he's the only studio head I have ever known who will change his mind and say he was wrong.
Dean Koontz

Change, Mind, Wrong

The hands of every clock are shears, trimming us away scrap by scrap, and every time piece with a digital readout blinks us towards implosion.
Dean Koontz

Time, Away, Hands

The only reason I would write a sequel is if I were struck by an idea that I felt to be equal to the original. Too many sequels diminish the original.
Dean Koontz

Reason, Write, Idea

Vladimir Nabokov said the two great evils of the 20th century were Marx and Freud. He was absolutely correct.
Dean Koontz

Great, Two, Said

We are coming out of a century that was taught that one way of looking at the world, that one form of behavior, is as valid as another. The idea of true evil has been blown away.
Dean Koontz

True, Evil, Away

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Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: July 9, 1945

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