Top 25 Dean Koontz Quotes

Your mind always does worse things than people can show in a movie.

I think it’s perfectly just to refuse service to anyone based on behavior, but not based on race or religion.

Civilization rests on the fact that most people do the right thing most of the time.

In my books, I never portray violence as a reasonable solution to a problem. If the lead characters in the story are driven to it, it’s at the extreme end of their experience.

A fanatic is a nut who has something to believe in.

I think the world is full of evil people. I think in some ways we’re in more danger now than before.

I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari.

I think it’s the people who have no doubt that every word they put down is gold that probably don’t write very well.

I try not to spend too much time on partisan politics. Life’s too short for that. I don’t really believe that there have been many human problems solved by politics.

Although charismatic, James Dean is no Harrison Ford. In the majority of his movies, sooner or later he got the crap beaten out of him.

I don’t find slashing and blood flying everywhere to be scary. I just find it repulsive.

If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that’s more than just entertainment-which is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people.

I’ve not seen in my lifetime any politician who is a heroic figure. The manipulation that all politicians use on one level or another is so transparent.

Although I’ve said a million times that I’m not a horror writer, I do like horror.

What we do as a society is seek simple answers.

We are coming out of a century that was taught that one way of looking at the world, that one form of behavior, is as valid as another. The idea of true evil has been blown away.

Each reader needs to bring his or her own mind and heart to the text.

I believe that I was a dog in a past life. That’s the only thing that would explain why I like to snack on Purina Dog Chow.

Never, never try to scope the market.

If you have to pay the bills, and you write something you’re not proud of, use a pen-name for that.

There’s sometimes a weird benefit to having an alcoholic, violent father. He really motivated me in that I never wanted to be anything like him.

If I drive myself to the brink of my ability, then I don’t get stale or bored.

Every book has some real life in it. I was never pursued by an evil twin clone, but everything else in MR. MURDER was pretty much out of my own life.

I really believe that everyone has a talent, ability, or skill that he can mine to support himself and to succeed in life.

I never discuss a novel while I’m writing it, for fear that talking about it will diminish my desire to write it.