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. – Dean Koontz
If you have to pay the bills, and you write something you’re not proud of, use a pen-name for that. – Dean Koontz
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 20 years. – Dean Koontz
I think the world is full of evil people. I think in some ways we’re in more danger now than before. – Dean Koontz
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
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. – Dean Koontz
I have to admit that when I watch a movie in which there is no moral context for the violence – I find that offensive. I think that’s potentially damaging to society. – Dean Koontz
A politician’s goal is always to manipulate public debate. I think there are some politicians with higher goals. But all of them get corrupted by power. – Dean Koontz
I have been reading Stephen King since CARRIE and hope to read him for many years to come. – Dean Koontz
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. – Dean Koontz
In my personal life, I’m a comic novel. But then, so are we all, because we’re human beings. – Dean Koontz
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. – Dean Koontz
Writing a novel is like making love, but it’s also like having a tooth pulled. Pleasure and pain. Sometimes it’s like making love while having a tooth pulled. – Dean Koontz
Some days I’m lucky to squeeze out a page of copy that pleases me, but I get as many as six or seven pages on a very good day; the average is probably three pages. – Dean Koontz
Readers will stay with an author, no matter what the variations in style and genre, as long as they get that sense of story, of character, of empathetic involvement. – Dean Koontz
Vladimir Nabokov said the two great evils of the 20th century were Marx and Freud. He was absolutely correct. – Dean Koontz
The only reason I would write a sequel is if I were struck by an idea that I felt to be equal to the original. Too many sequels diminish the original. – Dean Koontz