If you write with passion in your own style, you will make a place for yourself — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Was the dividing line between life and fiction as hazy for other people as it was for a writer?” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I don't write a quick draft and then revise; instead, I work slowly page by page, revising and polishing. — 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
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
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
Not all popular novelists are good, but all good novelists are, sooner or later, popular. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
If you have to pay the bills, and you write something you're not proud of, use a pen-name for that. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I have advice for new writers, first of all, at any time in the history of publishing in my experience, there will… — 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
I love my editor, but that would be the definition of hell to me to live with someone and have them go… — 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'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
... 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
“say, “Sometimes I think there may be more truth in fiction than in real life. Or at least truth condensed so that… — 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
Truth is always stranger than fiction. We craft fiction to match our sense of how things ought to be, but truth cannot… — 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
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
Billy Pilgrim had a theory about diaries. Women were more likely than men to think that their lives had sufficient meaning to… — 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
Every writer has his own voice. Other than that I'm always trying to do change-ups and publishers haven't always been happy about… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that's more than just entertainment-which is what we writers all… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Vladimir Nabokov said the two great evils of the 20th century were Marx and Freud. He was absolutely correct. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
As much as I've produced it looks to people like I must have written quickly, but it isn't that - because I… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Some days I'm lucky to squeeze out a page of copy that pleases me, but I get as many as six or… — 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 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
Writing isn't a source of pain. It's psychic chemotherapy. It reduces your psychological tumors and relieves your pain. — 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'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
I think it's the people who have no doubt that every word they put down is gold that probably don't write very… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
You can't always win arguments as a writer, but you have to just go ahead and say, well, I'm doing it that… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I can't go on to page two until I can get page one as perfect as I can make it. That might… — 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
