Top 54 Quotes by 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.

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'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.

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

I have been reading Stephen King since CARRIE and hope to read him for many years to come.

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.

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

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

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.