Quotes by Dean Koontz

About Dean Koontz:

Dean Ray Koontz is an American author. His novels are broadly described as suspense thrillers, but also frequently incorporate elements of horror, fantasy, science fiction, mystery, and satire. Several of his books have appeared on the New York Times Bestseller List, with 14 hardcovers and 14 paperbacks reaching the number one position. Koontz wrote under a number of pen names earlier in his career, including "David Axton", "Leigh Nichols" and "Brian Coffey". He has sold over 450 million copies as reported on his official site.
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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

Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish.

Dean Koontz

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

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

Dean Koontz

I have avoided becoming stale by putting a little water on the plate, lying on the plate, and having myself refreshed in a toaster oven for 23 minutes once every month.

Dean Koontz

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

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

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.

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

Because people see violence on the movie screen, they're not going to go out and hold up a liquor store and kill somebody. It really doesn't correlate.

Dean Koontz

If someone wrote it and it had a peculiar twist, I've read it.

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

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

Dean Koontz

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

Dean Koontz

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

Dean Koontz

When tempest tossed, embrace chaos.

Dean Koontz

Sometimes there is no darker place than our thoughts, the moonless midnight of the mind.

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

If you want to publish two books a year under your own name and your publisher doesn't, maybe you need a different publisher.

Dean Koontz

Never, never try to scope the market.

Dean Koontz

My wife is my first audience. She's a tough lady, so I can't say that I ever scare her. Except, of course, when she sees me the way I look before breakfast.

Dean Koontz

Author Bio

  • NameDean Koontz
  • DescriptionAmerican author
  • AliasesDean Ray Koontz
  • BornJuly 9, 1945
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Novelist
  • WorksDemon Seed; Watchers; Hideaway; Intensity; Phantoms (novel)