Top 54 Quotes by Dean Koontz

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.

Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid.

I don't find slashing and blood flying everywhere to be scary. I just find it repulsive.

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

In my books, I never portray violence as a reasonable solution to a problem. If the lead characters in the story are driven to it, it's at the extreme end of their experience.

Each reader needs to bring his or her own mind and heart to the text.

Somebody asked me about the current choice we're being given in the presidential election. I said, Well, it's like two of the scariest movies I can imagine.

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

Civilization rests on the fact that most people do the right thing most of the time.

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.