Pain can be endured and defeated only if it is embraced. Denied or feared, it grows. Dean Koontz More Quotes by Dean Koontz More Quotes From Dean Koontz I think the world is full of evil people. I think in some ways we're in more danger now than before. Dean Koontz evil-peopleliteraturethinking The hands of every clock are shears, trimming us away scrap by scrap, and every time piece with a digital readout blinks us towards implosion. Dean Koontz piecesliteraturehands 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 literaturewatchesthinking 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. Dean Koontz please-megood-dayaverage A fanatic is a nut who has something to believe in. Dean Koontz literaturenutsbelieve Civilization rests on the fact that most people do the right thing most of the time. Dean Koontz lovelifesex Of course, I don't know everything. Considering the infinite amount of knowledge that one could acquire in a virtually innumerable array of intellectual disciplines, it's probably more accurate to say that I don't know anything. Dean Koontz disciplineinfiniteintellectual 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. Dean Koontz bookpastyears In misfortune lies the seed of future triumph. Dean Koontz seedstriumphlying Vladimir Nabokov said the two great evils of the 20th century were Marx and Freud. He was absolutely correct. Dean Koontz literatureeviltwo My 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 Koontz scarewifelooks 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 literaturebookyears 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. Dean Koontz bobliteraturemind If wishes were filet mignon, we'd always eat well at dinner Dean Koontz dinnerwellswish The only reason I would write a sequel is if I were struck by an idea that I felt to be equal to the original. Too many sequels diminish the original. Dean Koontz literaturewritingideas The rain wasn't the usual glittering silver, but dark and dirty, as if nature were a scrubwoman wringing out a filthy mop. Dean Koontz darkraindirty The retriever took each bit of meat from his master's hand with a delicacy almost equal to that of a hummingbird sipping sugar water from a garden feeder, and when it was all gone, he gazed up at Dusty with an adoration that could not have been much less than the love with which the angels regard God. Dean Koontz gardenangelhands Shakespeare again. Once you let him into your head, he takes up tenancy and will not leave. Dean Koontz When we hope, we usually hope for the wrong thing. Dean Koontz wrong-things Besides, I can't get to where I want to go by conscious or unconscious suicide. I've got my strange little life to lead. Leading it the best I can - that's how I buy the ticket to where I want to be. Dean Koontz suicidewantlittles
