I work on one page, revising and polishing until I can't make it better, then move on to the next. Some pages… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
There's still a fascination with somebody who can write at book length, no matter what the book is. — 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
“Sometimes I think there may be more truth in fiction than in real life. Or at least truth condensed so that it's… — 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
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 way Winny saw it, the best thing and the worst thing were the same thing: nothing lasted ... what to say… — 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
“A body of work, therefore, reveals the intellectual and emotional progress of the writer, and is a map of his soul. It's… — 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
