I've always operated with a great deal of self-doubt. Every time I start a new book it's like, well, this one will destroy the career and I have to overcome that feeling especially in the first hundred pages of the book. Dean Koontz More Quotes by Dean Koontz More Quotes From Dean Koontz Is rule of thumb in writing game: if story requires many long descriptions of smells so vile that will give reader nausea, is not likely to find publisher. Dean Koontz smell games writing Although I've said a million times that I'm not a horror writer, I do like horror. Dean Koontz millions horror said Fate cannot be sidestepped or outrun. Dean Koontz outrun fate The problem with movies and books is they make evil look glamorous, exciting, when it's no such thing. It's boring and it's depressing and it's stupid. Criminals are all after cheap thrills and easy money, and when they get them, all they want is more of the same, over and over. They're shallow, empty, boring people who couldn't give you five minutes of interesting conversation if you had the piss-poor luck to be at a party full of them. Maybe some can be monkey-clever, some of the time, but they aren't hardly ever smart. Dean Koontz depressing smart clever 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. Dean Koontz humor mean book 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. Dean Koontz loneliness doors two In this uncertain space between birth and death, especially here at the end of the world in Moonlight Bay, we need hope as surely as we need food and water, love and friendship. Dean Koontz love-and-friendship space water In a crunch a man's reputation never counts for as much as it ought to. Dean Koontz crunch reputation men I never discuss a novel while I'm writing it, for fear that talking about it will diminish my desire to write it. Dean Koontz desire writing talking 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. Dean Koontz hammers people needs I think it's the people who have no doubt that every word they put down is gold that probably don't write very well. Dean Koontz writing people thinking I can't go on to page two until I can get page one as perfect as I can make it. That might mean I will rewrite and rewrite page one 20, 30, 50, 100 times. Dean Koontz perfect two mean Books are packaged dreams. Dean Koontz dream book What looks tragic might be comic on second consideration, and what is comic might bring tears in time. Dean Koontz tears might looks 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. Dean Koontz dean majority literature Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool. Dean Koontz courage desire giving Have fun, entertain yourself with your work, make yourself laugh and cry with your own stories, make yourself shiver in suspense along with your characters. If you can do that, then you will most likely find a large audience; but even if a large audience is never found, you'll have a happy life. Dean Koontz fun character happy-life 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. Dean Koontz presidential choices two 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. Dean Koontz levels literature use 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. Dean Koontz goal literature thinking
