Ifs Quotes by Dean Koontz

Pain can be endured and defeated only if it is embraced. Denied or feared, it grows.

— Dean Koontz

People couldn't bear to go on living if they faced every cold truth about themselves.

— Dean Koontz

If wishes were filet mignon, we'd always eat well at dinner

— Dean Koontz

I fall down on the side of free will, simply because if you look at where I came from, and what I…

— Dean Koontz

I imagined a life that turned out to be pretty much exactly like the one I've had. That fascinates me endlessly. I…

— Dean Koontz

Acting is a marvelous profession ... If you can spend enough time playing other people, you don't have to think too much…

— Dean Koontz

When it came to formal classes, I was a slacker. But I've always been a diligent autodidact and can teach myself virtually…

— Dean Koontz

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

— 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

If your work is deathwork, one weapon is not enough, just as a plumber would not answer an urgent service call with…

— Dean Koontz

Maybe I'm needy, neurotic, paranoid. Under the circumstances, of course, if I weren't needy, neurotic, and paranoid, I'd obviously be psychotic.

— Dean Koontz

If Edgar Allan Poe were alive today, his agent would be constantly slapping him upside the head with tightly rolled copies of…

— Dean Koontz

Have fun, entertain yourself with your work, make yourself laugh and cry with your own stories, make yourself shiver in suspense along…

— Dean Koontz

Dogs invite us not only to share their joy but also to live in the moment, where we are neither proceeding from…

— Dean Koontz

The selfless love that we give to others, to the point of being willing to sacrifice our lives for them, is all…

— 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

What popped up more than that was the realization that I made as an adult that the world is this incredibly complex,…

— Dean Koontz

The human species was too fond of lying, cheating, envy, ignorance, self-pity, self-righteousness, and utopian visions that always led to mass murder-but…

— Dean Koontz

mankind has no right to employ its genius in the creation of another intelligent species, then treat it like property. If we've…

— 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

There are thousands of proteins in the cells, some of them very large chains of molecules. And the cell doesn't function if…

— Dean Koontz

I've got evil in me as much as anyone, some desires that scare me. Even if I don't give in to them,…

— Dean Koontz

Between birth and burial, we find ourselves in a comedy of mysteries. If you don't think life is mysterious, if you believe…

— Dean Koontz

The biggest advice is being true to what you want to do. Don't worry if other people understand it or don't understand…

— 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

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

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

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

If I waited until I felt creative, I would never have had a career. I long ago learned that a day that…

— Dean Koontz