Because people see violence on the movie screen, they’re not going to go out and hold up a liquor store and kill somebody. It really doesn’t correlate. – Dean Koontz
Although charismatic, James Dean is no Harrison Ford. In the majority of his movies, sooner or later he got the crap beaten out of him. – Dean Koontz
I think it’s perfectly just to refuse service to anyone based on behavior, but not based on race or religion. – 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. – Dean Koontz
Human beings can always be relied upon to exert, with vigor, their God-given right to be stupid. – Dean Koontz
If you want to publish two books a year under your own name and your publisher doesn’t, maybe you need a different publisher. – Dean Koontz
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. – Dean Koontz
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. – Dean Koontz
Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool. – Dean Koontz
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. – Dean Koontz
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. – Dean Koontz
I don’t write a quick draft and then revise; instead, I work slowly page by page, revising and polishing. – Dean Koontz
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. – Dean Koontz
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. – Dean Koontz
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. – Dean Koontz
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. – Dean Koontz
I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari. – Dean Koontz
I really believe that everyone has a talent, ability, or skill that he can mine to support himself and to succeed in life. – Dean Koontz
I have avoided becoming stale by putting a little water on the plate, lying on the plate, and having myself refreshed in a toaster oven for 23 minutes once every month. – Dean Koontz
Sometimes there is no darker place than our thoughts, the moonless midnight of the mind. – Dean Koontz
I like to deal with EVERY aspect of our condition, and that means terror and humor in equal mix. Some books have more room for humor than others. – Dean Koontz
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. – 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. – Dean Koontz
My wife is my first audience. She’s a tough lady, so I can’t say that I ever scare her. Except, of course, when she sees me the way I look before breakfast. – Dean Koontz
