Top 54 Quotes by 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.

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.

Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.

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

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.

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.

When I'm working on a novel, I work 70-hour weeks.