Book Quotes by Dean Koontz

Books are packaged dreams.

— Dean Koontz

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

— Dean Koontz

In the real world as in dreams nothing is quite what it seems. -The Book of Counted Sorrows

— Dean Koontz

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

— Dean Koontz

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

— Dean Koontz

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

— 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'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

Each book is a mind alive, a life revealed, a world awaiting exploration, but living people are all those things, as well—and…

— Dean Koontz

Every book has some real life in it. I was never pursued by an evil twin clone, but everything else in MR.…

— 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

“As we passed his table, I saw that the device that imprisoned the book was clever but wicked-looking, as though the critic…

— Dean Koontz

In a book, even the real bastards can't hurt you. And you can never loose a friend you make in a book.…

— Dean Koontz

Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only…

— 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

One of the underlying things I like to do in books, is just say, stop and look at this for a moment.…

— Dean Koontz

I am no theologian. I would not be surprised, however, if Heaven proved to be a cozy kitchen, where delicious treats appeared…

— Dean Koontz

But once an idea for a novel seizes a writer...well, it’s like an inner fire that at first warms you and makes…

— Dean Koontz

When I'm in the middle of a book it can go up from there. When you're putting in those hours, the real…

— 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

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

— Dean Koontz

Eventually, as my books became best-sellers, the nickels pile up and one day I was offered a substantial four-book deal that was…

— Dean Koontz

“How have you kept yourself as yourself all these years? 'Books,' the boy said. 'Thousands of books.' 'They must have been the…

— Dean Koontz

The problem with movies and books is they make evil look glamorous, exciting, when it's no such thing. It's boring and it's…

— 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

Books had shown me, however, that all people everywhere wanted their lives to have purpose and meaning. This longing was universal.

— Dean Koontz

I receive about 10,000 letters a year from readers, and in the first year after a book is published, perhaps 5,000 letters…

— 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

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 was learning how people were with one another, how they acted and reacted and interacted, what they said and how they…

— Dean Koontz