Quotes By Dean Koontz

I never discuss a novel while I'm writing it, for fear that talking about it will diminish my desire to write it.

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.

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

I think the world is full of evil people. I think in some ways we're in more danger now than before.

What we do as a society is seek simple answers.

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.

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.

I receive about 10,000 letters a year from readers, and in the first year after a book is published, perhaps 5,000 letters will deal specifically with that piece of work.

I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari.

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

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.

Human beings can always be relied upon to exert, with vigor, their God-given right to be stupid.

Never, never try to scope the market.

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.

Each reader needs to bring his or her own mind and heart to the text.

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.

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

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

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.