Pain can be endured and defeated only if it is embraced. Denied or feared, it grows. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
People couldn't bear to go on living if they faced every cold truth about themselves. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
If your work is deathwork, one weapon is not enough, just as a plumber would not answer an urgent service call with… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I fall down on the side of free will, simply because if you look at where I came from, and what I… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Is rule of thumb in writing game: if story requires many long descriptions of smells so vile that will give reader nausea,… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Acting is a marvelous profession ... If you can spend enough time playing other people, you don't have to think too much… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
What popped up more than that was the realization that I made as an adult that the world is this incredibly complex,… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The selfless love that we give to others, to the point of being willing to sacrifice our lives for them, is all… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Have fun, entertain yourself with your work, make yourself laugh and cry with your own stories, make yourself shiver in suspense along… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
If I waited until I felt creative, I would never have had a career. I long ago learned that a day that… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If Edgar Allan Poe were alive today, his agent would be constantly slapping him upside the head with tightly rolled copies of… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Dogs invite us not only to share their joy but also to live in the moment, where we are neither proceeding from… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
If I had to write a rough draft, all the way through and then go back and start over, I probably would… — 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
