Dean Koontz Quotes
I am my own worst enemy. This, more than any other trait, proves my fundamental humanity.
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.
...what makes humanity beautiful is our free will, our individuality, our endless striving in spite of our imperfection. BY THE LIGHT OF THE MOON Chapter 27 Page 214
Blizzards, floods, volcanos, hurricanes, earthquakes: They fascinate because they nakedly reveal that Mother Nature, afflicted with bipolar disorder, is as likely to snuff us as she is to succor us.
The biggest advice is being true to what you want to do. Don't worry if other people understand it or don't understand it. If what you're doing has merit, it will find its way.
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.
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.
I believe in the possibility of miracles but, more to the point, I believe in our need for them.
None of us can ever save himself; we are the instruments of one another’s salvation, and only by the hope that we give to others do we lift ourselves out of the darkness into light.
Sorrow is not a raven perched persistently above a chamber door. Sorrow is a thing with teeth, and while in time it retreats, it comes back at the whisper of it's name.
We are an arrogant species, full of terrible potential, but we also have a great capacity for love, friendship, generosity, kindness, faith, hope, and joy.
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.
I was looking forward to having a halo. It would make such a convenient reading lamp.
Too much mystery is merely an annoyance. Too much adventure is exhausting. And a little terror goes a long way.
She was fascinated with words. To her, words were things of beauty, each like a magical powder or potion that could be combined with other words to create powerful spells.
The world needed a little Evil, so Good had something to compare itself to, but you couldn't let it think it had the right-of-way on the road and an invitation to dinner.
Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool.
If one's friends do not openly laugh at him, they are not in fact his friends.
Recognizing the structure of your psychology doesn't mean that you can easily rebuild it.
She says what holds their marriage together is that she feels too damn sorry for him to ask for a divorce.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I have been reading Stephen King since CARRIE and hope to read him for many years to come.
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 never discuss a novel while I'm writing it, for fear that talking about it will diminish my desire to write it.
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.
Most universities are no longer temples of knowledge, but of power, and true moderns worship there.
No degree of prosperity can be sufficient to eliminate all misfortune, and sloth is impervious to opportunity.
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.
Despair is good. Despair can be the nadir of one life and the starting point of an ascent into another, better one.
He said, if you allow yourself to be enchanted by the beauty to be seen in even ordinary things, then all things proved to be extraordinary.
Human beings are such knotted, desperate pieces of work-it's a rare thing to know one completely, to the core, and still love him.
I don't find slashing and blood flying everywhere to be scary. I just find it repulsive.
Although the constant shadow of certain death looms over everyday, the pleasures and joys of life can be so fine and affecting that the heart is nearly stilled in astonishment.
