Top 54 Quotes by Dean Koontz

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.

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

Readers will stay with an author, no matter what the variations in style and genre, as long as they get that sense of story, of character, of empathetic involvement.

I have to admit that when I watch a movie in which there is no moral context for the violence - I find that offensive. I think that's potentially damaging to society.

I've got a long list of books I wish I'd never written-and I've kept them all out of print for the past 20 years.

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

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

I try not to spend too much time on partisan politics. Life's too short for that. I don't really believe that there have been many human problems solved by politics.