Quotes By Dean Koontz

I believe that I was a dog in a past life. That's the only thing that would explain why I like to snack on Purina Dog Chow.

I have to admit that when I watch a movie in which there is no moral context for the violence - I find that offensive. I think that's potentially damaging to society.

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.

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.

If you want to publish two books a year under your own name and your publisher doesn't, maybe you need a different publisher.

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

Your mind always does worse things than people can show in a movie.

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.

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.

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.

There's sometimes a weird benefit to having an alcoholic, violent father. He really motivated me in that I never wanted to be anything like him.

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.

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

Civilization rests on the fact that most people do the right thing most of the time.

I don't write a quick draft and then revise; instead, I work slowly page by page, revising and polishing.

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.

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.

Although charismatic, James Dean is no Harrison Ford. In the majority of his movies, sooner or later he got the crap beaten out of him.

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.

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

Although I've said a million times that I'm not a horror writer, I do like horror.

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.

A fanatic is a nut who has something to believe in.

I have avoided becoming stale by putting a little water on the plate, lying on the plate, and having myself refreshed in a toaster oven for 23 minutes once every month.

I think it's perfectly just to refuse service to anyone based on behavior, but not based on race or religion.

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

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.

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

When tempest tossed, embrace chaos.

I don't find slashing and blood flying everywhere to be scary. I just find it repulsive.