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Renowned American author known for his suspense and horror novels. He has been writing since the 1970s and his works have been widely popular, winning numerous international awards.

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“When tempest tossed, embrace chaos”

Literature Embrace Chaos Tempest

Author: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.”

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Author: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.”

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Author: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.”

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Author: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.”

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Author:Dean Koontz

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

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Author:Dean Koontz

“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.”

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Author:Dean Koontz

“I think the world is full of evil people. I think in some ways we're in more danger now than before.”

People Thinking World Way Evil Literature Danger Evil People

Author:Dean Koontz

“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.”

Love Writing Sometimes Pain Literature Pleasure Novel Teeth Making Love Pain And Pleasure

Author: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.”

Hands Literature Pieces Clock Digital Scrap Blink Trimming Shears

Book:Fear Nothing: A Novel

Source: Fear Nothing: A Novel

“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.”

Thinking Literature Moral Watches Violence Offensive

Author:Dean Koontz

“Some days I'm lucky to squeeze out a page of copy that pleases me, but I get as many as six or seven pages on a very good day; the average is probably three pages.”

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Author:Dean Koontz

“A fanatic is a nut who has something to believe in.”

Believe Literature Nuts Fanatics

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

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Author:Dean Koontz

“Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool.”

Giving Desire Literature Courage Fool Damn

Book:Seize the Night: A Novel

Source: Seize the Night: A Novel

“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.”

Way Book Kids Literature House Wonderful Disappear

Author: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.”

Literature Majority Sooner Or Later Crap Beaten Dean Charismatic

Book:Seize the Night: A Novel

Source: Seize the Night: A Novel

“Every book has some real life in it. I was never pursued by an evil twin clone, but everything else in MR. MURDER was pretty much out of my own life.”

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Author: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.”

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Author:Dean Koontz

“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.”

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Author: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.”

Ifs Want Needs Years Two Book Different Literature Names Publishers Publish

Author:Dean Koontz

“In my personal life, I'm a comic novel. But then, so are we all, because we're human beings.”

Humans Literature Human Beings Novel Comic Personal Life

Author:Dean Koontz

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

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Author: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.”

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Author: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.”

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Author: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.”

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Author: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.”

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Author:Dean Koontz

“The only reason I would write a sequel is if I were struck by an idea that I felt to be equal to the original. Too many sequels diminish the original.”

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Author:Dean Koontz

“There are days when it seems to me that in literature the most convincing depiction of the world in which we live is to be found in the phantasmagorical kingdom through which Lewis Carroll took Alice on a tour.”

World Seems Found Literature Kingdoms Convincing Depiction

Book:Life Expectancy

Source: Life Expectancy

“Language can't describe reality. Literature has no stable reference, no real meaning. Each reader's interpretation is equally valid, more important than the author's intention. In fact, nothing in life has meaning. Reality is subjective. Values and truths are subjective. Life itself is a kind of illusion. Blah, blah, blah, let's have another scotch.”

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Author:Dean Koontz

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

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Author:Dean Koontz

“What we do as a society is seek simple answers.”

Literature Simple Answers

Author: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.”

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Author:Dean Koontz

“I have been reading Stephen King since CARRIE and hope to read him for many years to come.”

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Author:Dean Koontz

“If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that’s more than just entertainment-w hich is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people.”

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Author:Dean Koontz

“We are coming out of a century that was taught that one way of looking at the world, that one form of behavior, is as valid as another. The idea of true evil has been blown away.”

World Way Has Beens Ideas Form Evil Literature Century Taught Behavior One Way Coming Out Blown Away True Evil

Author:Dean Koontz

About the Author

Born: July 9, 1945
Known for: Author
Quotes: 762

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