There's still a fascination with somebody who can write at book length, no matter what the book is. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
If you write with passion in your own style, you will make a place for yourself — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Although I've said a million times that I'm not a horror writer, I do like horror. — 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
“Was the dividing line between life and fiction as hazy for other people as it was for a writer?” — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Sometimes many publishers prefer that you write the same book every time, but I have a low boredom threshold so that isn't… — 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
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
A plot without action is like pasta without garlic, like Dolly Parton without cleavage, and like a writer without his similes. — 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
“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
I enjoy the hell out of writing but don't like what follows: promotion and publicity, which I always strive to keep to… — 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 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
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
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 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
“taught them that whether a piece of writing is a novel or a law, each person is the sole arbiter of what… — 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
Eventually, as my books became best-sellers, the nickels pile up and one day I was offered a substantial four-book deal that was… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Ozzie Boone...insists that I keep the tone light in these biographical manuscripts. He believes that pessimism is strictly for people who are… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“She would have thought that working and living in continuous happiness, harmony, and security day after day would lead to mental lethargy,… — 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
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
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
The only reason I would write a sequel is if I were struck by an idea that I felt to be equal… — 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
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
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
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 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
I realized you might make money at writing, and you might even make a living at it. So after that I didn't… — 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
