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 Copy Share Image
There's still a fascination with somebody who can write at book length, no matter what the book is. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I always thought happiness was a choice and I always chose things that made me happy, and books were one of those. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Every book has some real life in it. I was never pursued by an evil twin clone, but everything else in MR.… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“I was learning how people were with one another, how they acted and reacted and interacted, what they said and how they… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
One of the underlying things I like to do in books, is just say, stop and look at this for a moment.… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I am no theologian. I would not be surprised, however, if Heaven proved to be a cozy kitchen, where delicious treats appeared… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Books had shown me, however, that all people everywhere wanted their lives to have purpose and meaning. This longing was universal. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I build a book the way coral reefs are built: millions of little calcareous skeletons piling up one atop another, though in… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
In the real world as in dreams nothing is quite what it seems. -The Book of Counted Sorrows — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
... one of those librarians who rules the stacks with an intimidating scowl, whispers quiet sharply enough to lacerate the tender inner… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We never had books in the house. Not any book in our house. Not a Bible, not anything. So, I would go… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I have been reading Stephen King since CARRIE and hope to read him for many years to come. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“How have you kept yourself as yourself all these years? 'Books,' the boy said. 'Thousands of books.' 'They must have been the… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“This kind of derangement is emblematic of humankind. Grave faults are said to be only eccentricities, and imperfections are routinely celebrated as mere differences… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“He often remembered his dad's admonition that envy was mental theft. If you coveted another man's possessions, Dad said, then you should be willing… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
But victimhood was seductive, a release from responsibility and caring. Fear would be transmuted into weary resignation; failure would no longer generate guilt but,… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
What really holds their marriage together are mutual respect of an awesome depth, a shared sense of humor, faith that they were brought together… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Her mother said that three great powers kept the universe going. The first and the strongest was God. Each of the two additional powers… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“I stopped keeping an eye out for Santa Claus on Christmas Eve because, when I was five, my mother told me that Santa was… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“To one degree or another, I have been happy most of my life, in part because the world has infinite charms if you wish… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“This life is just a bootcamp, to test and toughen us, to prepare us for the next life of service in some great adventure.… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“A madman should have a madman’s laugh, not the warm chuckle of a favorite uncle.” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Anger was a reliable defense, but one that allowed no chance of final victory. Anger was a medicine but never a cure, briefly numbing… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Nothing is predetermined for us, and yet all our possible choices are threads in the vast weave of things, so that we have free… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“In fact, time teaches us that the musical score of life oscillates between that of Psycho and that of The Sound of Music, with… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
