Dean Koontz Quotes
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I think it's perfectly just to refuse service to anyone based on behavior, but not based on race or religion.
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If you want to publish two books a year under your own name and your publisher doesn't, maybe you need a different publisher.
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Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool.
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Civilization rests on the fact that most people do the right thing most of the time.
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I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari.
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'Where there's cake, there's hope. And there's always cake.'
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Your mind always does worse things than people can show in a movie.
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I don't find slashing and blood flying everywhere to be scary. I just find it repulsive.
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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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I think the world is full of evil people. I think in some ways we're in more danger now than before.
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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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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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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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'Fear is a hammer, and when the people are beaten finally to the conviction that their existence hangs by a frayed thread, they will be led where they need to go.' 'Which is where?' 'To a responsible future in a properly managed world.'
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In a world that daily disconnects further from truth, more and more people accept the virtual in place of the real, and all things virtual are also malleable.
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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.
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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.
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Sometimes there is no darker place than our thoughts, the moonless midnight of the mind.
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Although I've said a million times that I'm not a horror writer, I do like horror.
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There's lots of law these days, but not much justice. Celebrities murder their wives and go free. A mother kills her children, and the news people on TV say she's the victim and want you to send money to her lawyers. When everything's upside down like this, what fool just sits back and thinks justice will prevail?
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Loneliness comes in two basic varieties. When it results from a desire for solitude, loneliness is a door we close against the world. When the world instead rejects us, loneliness is an open door, unused.
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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.
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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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He's a hollow man. He believes in anything. Hollow men are vulnerable to anyone who offers them something that might fill the void and make them feel less empty.