Dean Koontz
Although the constant shadow of certain death looms over everyday, the pleasures and joys of life can be so fine and affecting that the heart is nearly stilled in astonishment.
Dean KoontzSome people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.
Dean KoontzWhen life hands us a beutiful bouquet of flowers we stare at it in cautious expectation of a bee.
Dean KoontzCreating a family in this turbulent world is an act of faith, a wager that against all odds there will be a future, that love can last, that the heart can triumph against all adversities and even against the grinding wheel of time.
Dean KoontzUnderstanding wasn't always necessary as long as you believed.
Dean KoontzWe 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.
Dean KoontzI believe in the possibility of miracles but more to the point, I believe in our need for them.
Dean KoontzMoments of extreme terror bring back the gestures of our youth.
Dean KoontzPower dements even more than it corrupts, lowering the guard of foresight and raising the haste of action.
Dean KoontzIn moderate doses melancholy can be strangley comforting, darkly sweet; it can by providing contrast, give an exquisitely sharp edge to happiness, especially to pleasures of the flesh.
Dean KoontzA fanatic is a nut who has something to believe in.
Dean KoontzI think it's perfectly just to refuse service to anyone based on behavior, but not based on race or religion.
Dean KoontzI don't write a quick draft and then revise; instead, I work slowly page by page, revising and polishing.
Dean KoontzFor a thinking creature of high intellect there can be no pleasure separate from emotion. If you deny men emotion you deny them pleasure.
Dean KoontzIf you want to publish two books a year under your own name and your publisher doesn't, maybe you need a different publisher.
Dean KoontzEvery 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.
Dean KoontzSavor the warmth of every sun-filled day, and the chill wind of every raging storm, weeds as much as flowers, the bitter and the sweet.
Dean KoontzEach reader needs to bring his or her own mind and heart to the text.
Dean KoontzMy 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 KoontzLiterary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish.
Dean KoontzI do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari.
Dean KoontzI'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 KoontzI have been reading Stephen King since CARRIE and hope to read him for many years to come.
Dean KoontzAlthough 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 KoontzReaders 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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