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. Dean Koontz Read Quote
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. Dean Koontz Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. Dean Koontz Read Quote
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 Read Quote
