Top 54 Quotes by Dean Koontz

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.