Dean Koontz Quotes
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.
I have been reading Stephen King since CARRIE and hope to read him for many years to come.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that’s more than just entertainment-w hich is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people.
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.
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.
A man begins dying at the moment of his birth. Most People live in denial of Death's patient courtship until, late in life and deep in sickness, they become aware of him sitting bedside.
Loyal companions are an unequaled grace, stanching fear before it bleeds you numb, a reliable antidote for creeping despair.
My life would be constrained by the horror and fierce rage that my appearance inspired, but I would know peace as well as fear, tenderness as well as brutality, and even love in a time of cruelty.
I'll sit in the park and feed the pigeons for a while.' We don't have pigeons.' Then I'll feed the pterodactyls.
Every human being has appetites difficult to control but far fewer have humility, gentleness, and an awareness of their weaknesses.
In the wind, the trees, like agitated lions preparing to roar, shook their great green manes.
You have to stop worrying about looking foolish, 'cause fear of being humiliated really limits you.
The recognition of pain and fear in others give rise in us to pity, and in our pity is our humanity, our redemption.
Maybe I'm needy, neurotic, paranoid. Under the circumstances, of course, if I weren't needy, neurotic, and paranoid, I'd obviously be psychotic.
The only thing we can't buy more of is time." she said. "And dodo birds. We can't buy any more of them. they're extinct. And dinosaurs.
We need to laugh at the irrationality of evil, for in doing so we deny evil's power over us, diminish its influence in the world, and tarnish the allure it has for some people.
Southerners have many fine qualities, charm and civility among them, and a sense of the tragic.
When life hands us a beutiful bouquet of flowers we stare at it in cautious expectation of a bee.
Being polite is not only the right way to respond to people but also the easiest. Life is so filled with unavoidable conflict that I see no reason to promote more confrontations.
The brain acknowledged the approach of death while the heart stubbornly insisted upon immortality.
Every eye sees its own special vision; every ear hears a most different song. In each man's troubled heart, an incision would reveal a unique, shameful wrong.
I come down on the side of free will but I have sympathy for those who believe in fate because there is something about life which we feel we have no control over.
What will happen will happen. There is time for miracles until there is no more time, but time has no end.
If you have to pay the bills, and you write something you're not proud of, use a pen-name for that.
Each book is a mind alive, a life revealed, a world awaiting exploration, but living people are all those things, as well—and more, because their stories haven’t yet been completely told.
Then what are you? An electronic Hannibal Lector? You can't eat my liver with fava beans through a modem, you know.
It was one of those rare times when remembering the dead was more inmportant than tending to the needs of the living.
Being alone can be good. It's easy to find peace alone. But sometimes, being alone is a king of death.
