Quotes By Dean Koontz

When tempest tossed, embrace chaos.

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

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

Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I really believe that everyone has a talent, ability, or skill that he can mine to support himself and to succeed in life.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Never, never try to scope the market.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.