Books Quotes by Dean Koontz

“Who would chew up a bunch of books?”

— Dean Koontz

Books are packaged dreams.

— Dean Koontz

When I'm working on a novel, I work 70-hour weeks.

— Dean Koontz

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

— Dean Koontz

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

— Dean Koontz

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

— Dean Koontz

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

— Dean Koontz

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

— Dean Koontz

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

— Dean Koontz

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

— Dean Koontz

I have learned a great deal from novels. Some of it is even true.

— Dean Koontz

“Winny didn't know what he would do without his books, except probably go berserk and start killing people and making ashtrays out…

— 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

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

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

Is rule of thumb in writing game: if story requires many long descriptions of smells so vile that will give reader nausea,…

— 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

Readers will stay with an author, no matter what the variations in style and genre, as long as they get that sense…

— Dean Koontz

If God is an author and the universe is the biggest novel ever written, I may feel as if I'm the lead…

— Dean Koontz

“Winny had learned from books... you had to be tested in life to discover who you were and what you were capable…

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

— Dean Koontz

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

— Dean Koontz

Language can't describe reality. Literature has no stable reference, no real meaning. Each reader's interpretation is equally valid, more important than the…

— 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 can remember the times when I started including humor in novels that were suspenseful. I was told you can't do that…

— Dean Koontz

“If anyone in your publishing life were to argue against a particular book or a career aspiration for reasons you had not…

— 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

“In August of 1998, I completed Seize the Night , the sequel to my novel Fear Nothing , one of many of…

— Dean Koontz

“Nowhere can a secret keep Always secret, dark and deep, Half so well as in the past, Buried deep to last, to…

— 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

“Maybe the one dangerous thing about reading a library's worth of books was the way your imagination got pumped up like a…

— Dean Koontz

I like to deal with EVERY aspect of our condition, and that means terror and humor in equal mix. Some books have…

— 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

In my books, I never portray violence as a reasonable solution to a problem. If the lead characters in the story are…

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

— 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