Dean Koontz's Quotes

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

I have been reading Stephen King since CARRIE and hope to read him for many years to come.

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.