Dean Koontz Quotes
Every writer has his own voice. Other than that I'm always trying to do change-ups and publishers haven't always been happy about that.
I work on one page, revising and polishing until I can't make it better, then move on to the next. Some pages might get 20 or more drafts before I move on.
I fall down on the side of free will, simply because if you look at where I came from, and what I was able to do in my life, what was able to happen.
You can't always win arguments as a writer, but you have to just go ahead and say, well, I'm doing it that way anyway.
I've had good publishers and bad publishers, and you've got to learn when the advice is sensible and when it's not.
When we make our own misery we sometimes cling to it even when we want so bad to change, because misery is something we know. The misery is comfortable.
People hide truths about themselves from themselves. Such self-deception is a coping mechanism, and to one extent or another, most people begin deceiving themselves when they're children.
Of course, in the process, you must never do harm to others in any serious way, or you'll cease to amuse Him. Then payment comes due for promises you didn't keep.
How obvious can it be? ... The purpose of makeup is to defy the degradations of time, and time is just a synonym for death.
Money and beauty are defenses against the sorrows of this world but neither can undo the past. Only time will conquer time. The way forward is the only way back to innocence and to peace.
Tommy and Scootie locked eyes. Only minutes ago, he wouldn't have believed that he could ever have felt such a kinship with the Labrador as he felt now.
people have a natural tendency to anthropomorphize their pets, to ascribe human perceptions and intentions to the animal where none exist
He once told me that an August evening was "as hot as three toads in a Cuisinart, " a comparison that left me blinking two days later.
He's got a chloroform-soaked rag in one hand, and before Judy realizes what's happening, the dude is all over her like fat on cheese.
...what makes humanity beautiful is our free will, our individuality, our endless striving in spite of our imperfection.BY THE LIGHT OF THE MOONChapter 27 Page 214
He would pray...for everyone who knew pain, which meant everyone who wore a human face.
I knew that suffering can purify, that it's a kind of fire that can be worth enduring, but there were degrees of it to which I chose not to subject myself.
His resiliency was not the resiliency of the dumb but of a lamb who can remember hurt but cannot sustain the anger or the bitterness that brittles the heart.
Sometimes it seems that to exit this world, they must go through my heart, leaving me scarred and sore.
This isn't a reasoned response to a configuration of stars, but the heart cannot flourish on logic alone. Unreason is an essential medicine as long as you don't overdose
Strange how the deepest part of us isn't able to speak more clearly to the part of us that lives only here in the shallows of the world.
And because we have been given thought, will, and imagination, albeit on a human scale, we too have this power to create.
...it will be a world made not bright but brighter, not clean but cleaner.
Knowing the names of things is a way to pay respect to the beauty of the world...
It's immeasurably easier to live in a world that's all surfaces, that means nothing and demands nothing of you.
Living in a monastery, even as a guest rather than a monk, you have more opportunities than you might have elsewhere to see the world as it is, instead of through the shadow that you cast upon it.
Life had been hard on this girl, Jacob, but she had enough courage for an army.
We make so many of our own troubles, from mere mishaps to disasters, by dwelling on the possibility of them until the possible becomes inevitable.
Human beings not only can't bear too much reality, we flee from reality when someone doesn't force us close enough to the fire to feel the heat on our faces.
Most people regarded Psychology as a science. Some called it a soft science, but those making such a distinction grew fewer by the year.
The dead can be even more frustrating to deal with than are many of the living, which is astonishing when you consider it's the living who run the Department of Motor Vehicles.
She says that each of us has his or her role in life, and if we know ourselves well enough to understand what that role is, we will be happy doing nothing but what we can do best.
Nothing before its time, son. Everything in its own time, to its own schedule.
I never plan for the future but wander into it with a smile on my face, hope in my heart, and the hair up on the nape of my neck.
My only armor is my belief that life has meaning...
Are you one of those people who uses words more for the sound than for the sense of them?
Words are the wellspring of the world, and language is the most powerful weapon in the ancient and still unfolding war between truth and lies.
By doing, I learn what to do. By going, I learn where to go. One day, by dying, I'll learn how to die, and leave the world and hope to land in light.
So many things in my continuing education are learned by going where I have to go and doing what I have to do. Therefore, my only answer is: "I guess I'll find out.