Writer Quotes by Dean Koontz

“Who would chew up a bunch of books?”

— Dean Koontz

Books are packaged dreams.

— Dean Koontz

“We are fictioneers.”

— Dean Koontz

The desire to write well can never be fulfilled without hard work.

— Dean Koontz

If you write with passion in your own style, you will make a place for yourself

— Dean Koontz

Books showed me that there were other ways to live a life.

— Dean Koontz

Sometimes many publishers prefer that you write the same book every time, but I have a low boredom threshold so that isn't…

— Dean Koontz

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

— Dean Koontz

I work on one page, revising and polishing until I can't make it better, then move on to the next. Some pages…

— Dean Koontz

There's still a fascination with somebody who can write at book length, no matter what the book is.

— Dean Koontz

I can't go on to page two until I can get page one as perfect as I can make it. That might…

— Dean Koontz

“Sometimes I think there may be more truth in fiction than in real life. Or at least truth condensed so that it's…

— Dean Koontz

You can't always win arguments as a writer, but you have to just go ahead and say, well, I'm doing it that…

— Dean Koontz

Writing a novel is like making love, but it's also like having a tooth pulled. Pleasure and pain. Sometimes it's like making…

— Dean Koontz

“A body of work, therefore, reveals the intellectual and emotional progress of the writer, and is a map of his soul. It's…

— Dean Koontz

I kind of build a novel the way marine polyps build a coral reef, it's millions and millions of little precarious bodies…

— Dean Koontz

I don't procrastinate because I love the English language and the process of storytelling, and I'm always curious to see what will…

— Dean Koontz

“The way Winny saw it, the best thing and the worst thing were the same thing: nothing lasted ... what to say…

— Dean Koontz

I have more self-doubt than any writer I've ever known… The positive aspect of self-doubt - if you can channel it into…

— Dean Koontz

“say, “Sometimes I think there may be more truth in fiction than in real life. Or at least truth condensed so that…

— Dean Koontz

... one of those librarians who rules the stacks with an intimidating scowl, whispers quiet sharply enough to lacerate the tender inner…

— Dean Koontz

I've always operated with a great deal of self-doubt. Every time I start a new book it's like, well, this one will…

— Dean Koontz

If I had to write a rough draft, all the way through and then go back and start over, I probably would…

— Dean Koontz

Billy Pilgrim had a theory about diaries. Women were more likely than men to think that their lives had sufficient meaning to…

— Dean Koontz

It may sound strange, but when you're a kid and you're in that environment, for some reason for a long time you…

— Dean Koontz

Authors of so-called 'literary' fiction insist that action, like plot, is vulgar and unworthy of a true artist. Don't pay any attention…

— Dean Koontz

Truth is always stranger than fiction. We craft fiction to match our sense of how things ought to be, but truth cannot…

— Dean Koontz

Writing isn't a source of pain. It's psychic chemotherapy. It reduces your psychological tumors and relieves your pain.

— Dean Koontz

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

— Dean Koontz

I think it's the people who have no doubt that every word they put down is gold that probably don't write very…

— Dean Koontz

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…

— Dean Koontz

We never had books in the house. Not any book in our house. Not a Bible, not anything. So, I would go…

— Dean Koontz

I build a book the way coral reefs are built: millions of little calcareous skeletons piling up one atop another, though in…

— Dean Koontz

Some days I'm lucky to squeeze out a page of copy that pleases me, but I get as many as six or…

— Dean Koontz

If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that's more than just entertainment-which is what we writers all…

— Dean Koontz

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

— Dean Koontz

Every writer has his own voice. Other than that I'm always trying to do change-ups and publishers haven't always been happy about…

— Dean Koontz

As much as I've produced it looks to people like I must have written quickly, but it isn't that - because I…

— Dean Koontz

I always thought happiness was a choice and I always chose things that made me happy, and books were one of those.

— Dean Koontz

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

— Dean Koontz