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

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Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion, and empat...

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What was destiny? What was the power that shaped the patterns and attempted to enforce them? God? Should she be raging at God - or begging Him to let her son live and to spare her from the life of a cripple? Or was the power behind destiny merely a n...

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This may be the primary purpose of dogs: to restore our sense of wonder and to help us maintain it, to make us consider that we should trust our intuition as they trust theirs and to help us realize that a thing known intuitively can be as real as an...

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Golden retrievers are not bred to be guard dogs, and considering the size of their hearts and their irrepressible joy in life, they are less likely to bite than to bark, less likely to bark than to lick a hand in greeting. In spite of their size, the...

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The truth was stranger than the official fiction.

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We were friends, never paramours. A lover who is enigmatic will most likely prove to be a cataclysm waiting to happen. But a charming friend whose usual warmth is raveled through moments of cool inscrutability can be an intriguing companion.

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Some people misunderstand evil and believe it will relent, and because their misplaced hope inspires dark hearts to dream darker dreams, they are the fathers and mothers of all wars. Evil does not relent; it must be defeated. And even when defeated, ...

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Narcissists are everywhere in this ripe age of self-love, which amazes me because so much in life would seem to foster humility.

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Humanity is a parade of fools, and I am at the front of it, twirling a baton.

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...he looked as if nothing hard in the world had touched him...

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Are you one of those people who uses words more for the sound than for the sense of them?

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Intuition is seeing with the soul.

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I would die of lonely.

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Maybe magic and love, together, can achieve what magic alone cannot.

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I am sustained by the certainty that life has meaning. As does death.

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He's a man," Themla said. "I guess that explains it." "Hairy, Neanderthalic," Thelma said, "perpetually half-crazed from excessive levels of testosterone, plagued by racial memories of the lost glory of mammoth-hunting expeditions - they're all alike...

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Life, Stormy says, is not about how fast you run or even with what degree of grace. It's about perseverance, about staying on your feet and slogging forward no matter what.

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Stay low, stay quiet, keep it simple, don't expect too much, enjoy what you have.

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Play hard. Play, play, play like your life depends on it. Because it does.

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Recognizing the structure of your psychology doesn't mean that you can easily rebuild it.

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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)