“I've had good publishers and bad publishers, and you've got to learn when the advice is sensible and when it's not.” Quote by Dean Koontz
“I can remember the times when I started including humor in novels that were suspenseful. I was told you can't do that because you can't keep the audience in suspense if they're laughing. My attitude was, if the character has a sense of humor, then that makes the character more real because that's how we deal with the vicissitudes of life, we deal with it through humor.” IfsI CanRealCharacterRememberDealsAttitudeNovelAudienceLaughingIncludingSuspenseSense Of HumorMy AttitudeVicissitudes Author:Dean Koontz
“You can't always win arguments as a writer, but you have to just go ahead and say, well, I'm doing it that way anyway.” WayWellsWinningArgument Author:Dean Koontz
“The biggest advice is being true to what you want to do. Don't worry if other people understand it or don't understand it. If what you're doing has merit, it will find its way.” PeopleIfsWayWantWorryAdviceWhat You WantBeing TrueMerit Author:Dean Koontz
“Strangely enough, for many many years I didn't talk about my childhood and then when I did I got a ton of mail - literally within a year I got a couple of thousand letters from people who'd had a worse childhood, a similar childhood, a less-bad childhood, and the question that was most often posed to me in those letters was: how did you get past the trauma of being raised by a violent alcoholic?” PeopleYearsEnoughPastChildhoodCoupleThousandLettersRaisedTraumaViolentMailAlcoholics Author:Dean Koontz
“I always thought happiness was a choice and I always chose things that made me happy, and books were one of those.” MadeBookChoices Author:Dean Koontz
“We never had books in the house. Not any book in our house. Not a Bible, not anything. So, I would go the library from a very young age and get the books out.” BookAgeYoungHouseLibraryYoung Age Author:Dean Koontz
“Dogs are one of those things that make you happy and make you wonder.” WonderDogMake You Happy Author:Dean Koontz
“The world is a very complex and interesting place and that is what I really want my fiction to say: wake up to how amazing the world is.” WorldWantInterestingFictionWake UpComplexesInteresting Places Author:Dean Koontz
“If the film isn't suspenseful, i.e. the pressure cooker situation of what's going on in the movie, if that's not part of it, if the threat of violence and the temperature isn't always going up a notch every scene or so, then the movie is going to be boring. It's not going to work.” IfsFilmSituationViolenceScenePressureThreatBoringGoing To WorkTemperatureNotchesCookers Author:Quentin Tarantino
“You have to be open to change. I never stop making sure that what I say is the best of what could be said about a particular thing. It's a constant evolution. If I planted a tree one way yesterday and somebody tells me of a better way to plant a tree, I think, You know, they're right, that's better. Then I change my way to accommodate the new way of planting trees.” IfsThinkingKnowsWaySaidTreeParticularEvolutionConstantPlantYesterdayOne WayMy WayNew WaysBetter WaysAccommodatePlant A Tree Author:Martha Stewart