Top 54 Quotes by Dean Koontz

I receive about 10,000 letters a year from readers, and in the first year after a book is published, perhaps 5,000 letters will deal specifically with that piece of work.

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.

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

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

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.

One of the things I like enormously about Bob Weinstein is that that he's the only studio head I have ever known who will change his mind and say he was wrong.