In my personal life, I'm a comic novel. But then, so are we all, because we're human beings. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I never discuss a novel while I'm writing it, for fear that talking about it will diminish my desire to write it. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There's never any humongous next draft. I know a writer who every time he finished a novel - you would know his… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
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 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
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
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
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 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
