Top 54 Quotes by 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.

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

Vladimir Nabokov said the two great evils of the 20th century were Marx and Freud. He was absolutely correct.

There's sometimes a weird benefit to having an alcoholic, violent father. He really motivated me in that I never wanted to be anything like him.

The hands of every clock are shears, trimming us away scrap by scrap, and every time piece with a digital readout blinks us towards implosion.

I believe that I was a dog in a past life. That's the only thing that would explain why I like to snack on Purina Dog Chow.

A politician's goal is always to manipulate public debate. I think there are some politicians with higher goals. But all of them get corrupted by power.

If you have to pay the bills, and you write something you're not proud of, use a pen-name for that.

I think it's perfectly just to refuse service to anyone based on behavior, but not based on race or religion.

Writing a novel is like making love, but it's also like having a tooth pulled. Pleasure and pain. Sometimes it's like making love while having a tooth pulled.