Dean Koontz Quotes

Only time conquers time and its burdens.

I've a long list of things I don't know how I've done, but I've done them. In the end, it's always about perseverance.

Every talent is unearned, however, and with it comes a solemn obligation to use it as fully and as wisely as possible.

A silent dark...as black as a moonless lake, as a ravine's wings, darkness there and nothing more, merely this and nothing more.

Guilt is a tireless horse. Grief ages into sorrow, and sorrow is an enduring rider.

Night has patterns that can be read less by the living than by the dead.

In the real world as in dreams nothing is quite what it seems. -The Book of Counted Sorrows

We wasn't born to be all the time scared, we was born happy.

Maybe there's nothing impossible tonight. We're down the hole to Wonderland, and no White Rabbit to guide us." If I remember correctly, the White Rabbit was an unreliable guide, anyway.

The true nature of the world was weirder than any bizarre fabric that anyone might weave from the warp and weft of imagination's loom.

If your work is deathwork, one weapon is not enough, just as a plumber would not answer an urgent service call with a single wrench.

Not all popular novelists are good, but all good novelists are, sooner or later, popular.

Whiskers of the cat, Webbed toes on my swimming dog; God is in the details.

Humanity was drawn to turmoil and self-destruction as inevitably as the earth was drawn to complete its annual revolution of the sun.

This world, which has the potential to be Eden, is instead the hell before Hell. In our arrogance, we have made it so.

Death lies dormant in each of us and will bloom in time.

Shakespeare again. Once you let him into your head, he takes up tenancy and will not leave.

I know it's hard being a single mother baby, he said, but we're talking fundamentals here. Homemade cookies are one of the best parts of christmas. It's an absolute fundamental.

Life's mysterious, strange, and full of wonders - and only a fool withdraws from it willingly and lets it pass him by.

Your sense of responsibility to others can never be excessive.

Rub-a-dub-dub. Cerebrum in a tub.

Evil men often easy to mislead, because they have spent so long deceiving that they no longer recognise the truth and mistake deseption for it.

The hatred of truth is the taproot of violence.

When I am battered and oppressed by the world that humanity has made - which is difference from the world that is was given - my primary defense, my consolation, is the absurdity of that world

That was interesting, riding in the trunk," Milo said, "but I wouldn't want to do it again.

The broom wasn't as comforting as a flamethrower would have been, but it was better than a mop and certainly more threatening than a feather duster.

If you write with passion in your own style, you will make a place for yourself

The things we worry about the most are never the things that bite us. The sharpest teeth always take their nip of us when we are looking the other way.

When I'm working on a novel, I work 70-hour weeks.

One door away from heaven And the key is ours to lose. One door away from heaven But oh, the entry dues.

I fell in love with her for her sense of humour. If she ever lost her sense of humour, I would have to dump her. Then I'd kill myself because I couldn't live without her.

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.

Funny, how one good cookie could calm the mind and even elevate a troubled soul.

To a predator, fear indicates weakness.

its a rare thing to know one completly to the core and stil love him

I never have lunch because it makes me foggy-headed.

I think the world is an interesting place and I don't think anybody has the firm and final answer to what it is but I kind of assume there's a purpose.

The world is a very complex and interesting place and that is what I really want my fiction to say: wake up to how amazing the world is.

I just became fascinated with how complex and unlikely the universe is and life is and Catholicism gives me an answer to that.

We never had books in the house. Not any book in our house. Not a Bible, not anything. So, I would go the library from a very young age and get the books out.

I always thought happiness was a choice and I always chose things that made me happy, and books were one of those.

I always enjoyed the kids, but I didn't enjoy the bureaucracy of the educational system.

Sometimes many publishers prefer that you write the same book every time, but I have a low boredom threshold so that isn't going to happen.

I am basically a pretty good autodidact. I can teach myself things.

There's still a fascination with somebody who can write at book length, no matter what the book is.

I love my editor, but that would be the definition of hell to me to live with someone and have them go page by page through my manuscript. That I want to avoid at all costs.

As much as I've produced it looks to people like I must have written quickly, but it isn't that - because I put in in a sixty- or seventy-hour week.

While I like people, I do also like being alone in a room and seeing what you can do with a particular theme or subject.

Being paid well for something you love to do - it's a grace.

I enjoy the hell out of writing but don't like what follows: promotion and publicity, which I always strive to keep to a minimum, sometimes to my publisher's dismay.