Dean Koontz Quotes

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

  Dean Koontz

• 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

• 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

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

  Dean Koontz

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  Dean Koontz

• Never, never try to scope the market.

  Dean Koontz

• 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

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

  Dean Koontz

• 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

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

  Dean Koontz

• 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

• 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

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

  Dean Koontz

• 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

• If someone wrote it and it had a peculiar twist, I’ve read it.

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• If I drive myself to the brink of my ability, then I don’t get stale or bored.

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Dean Koontz (68)

Birth:	9th July, 1945
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author

About

Dean Ray Koontz is an American author best known for his novels, which can broadly be described as suspense thrillers, but also frequently incorporate elements of horror, science fiction, mystery, and satire. Several of his books have appeared on the New York Times Bestseller List, 14 hardcovers and 14 paperbacks reached the number one position.

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