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Dean Koontz Quotes - Page 12

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Home was not a perfect place. But it was the only home they had and they could hope to make it better.

Home was not a perfect place. But it was the only home they had and they could hope to make it better.

Home, Perfect

Dean Koontz (2007). “Winter Moon: A Novel”, p.472, Bantam

On those occasions when he had killed in the dark, he later needed to see his victims' faces because, in some unlit corner of his heart, he half expected to find his own face looking up at him, ice-white and dead-eyed. "Deep down," the dream-victim had said, "You know that you're already dead yourself, burnt out inside. You realize that you have far more in common with your victims after you've killed them than before.

Dream, Heart, Dark

There are days when it seems to me that in literature the most convincing depiction of the world in which we live is to be found in the phantasmagorical kingdom through which Lewis Carroll took Alice on a tour.

Literature, World, Kingdoms

Dean Koontz (2007). “Life Expectancy”, p.419, Bantam

Vladimir Nabokov said the two great evils of the 20th century were Marx and Freud. He was absolutely correct.

Two, Evil, Literature

"Contemplating Evil: An Interview with Dean Koontz". Interview with Nick Gillespie & Lisa Snell, Reason magazine, reason.com. November, 1996.

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.

Wife, Scare, Looks

The things we worry about the most are never the things that bite us. The sharpest teeth always take their nip of us when we are looking the other way.

Worry, Teeth, Way

Dean Koontz (2016). “The Complete Odd Thomas 8-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd, Saint Odd”, p.335, Bantam

After once having made the mistake of watching television news, I had worried for a while about an asteroid hitting the earth and wiping out human civilization. The anchorwoman had said it was not merely possible but probable. At the end of the report, she smiled.

Mistake, Civilization, Wiping Out

Dean Koontz (2016). “The Complete Odd Thomas 8-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd, Saint Odd”, p.335, Bantam

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.

Angel, Garden, Hands

Dean Koontz (2007). “False Memory”, p.89, Bantam

Or maybe they were just doing it for fun. A lark. Their religion is tolerant of extreme forms of recreation. Boys will be boys, after all, and sociopathic boys will be sociopathic.

Fun, Boys, Larks

Dean Koontz (2014). “The Odd Thomas Series 7-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd”, p.288, Bantam

When we hope, we usually hope for the wrong thing.

Wrong Things

Dean Koontz (2007). “Brother Odd: An Odd Thomas Novel”, p.18, Bantam

A great deal of phenomenal experience has fostered in me a flexibility of the mind and imagination that some might call madness

Imagination, Mind, Might

Dean Koontz (2014). “The Odd Thomas Series 7-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd”, p.70, Bantam

Some argued that the youth of today were poorly educated and insufficiently industrious, but one of them had sought to validate his generation by spending considerable time and effort chiseling an obscene word in the concrete picnic table, and he had spelled it correctly.

Youth Of Today, Effort, Generations

A silent dark...as black as a moonless lake, as a ravine's wings, darkness there and nothing more, merely this and nothing more.

Dark, Lakes, Wings

Not an insult sweetie. That was a thirteen word kiss.

Kissing, Insult, Thirteen

The broom wasn't as comforting as a flamethrower would have been, but it was better than a mop and certainly more threatening than a feather duster.

Comforting, Threatening, Brooms

Dean Koontz (2007). “Forever Odd: An Odd Thomas Novel”, p.20, Bantam

I'll sit in the park and feed the pigeons for a while.' We don't have pigeons.' Then I'll feed the pterodactyls.

Parks, Pigeons

Dean Koontz (2014). “The Odd Thomas Series 7-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd”, p.358, Bantam

I am sustained by the certainty that life has meaning...as does death.

Doe, Certainty

Twitter post from May 08, 2015

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.

Book, Years, Literature

Death came, Death went, but Commerce flowed Eternal.

Commerce, Eternal

Dean Koontz (2016). “The Complete Odd Thomas 8-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd, Saint Odd”, p.380, Bantam

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.

Mind, Bob, Literature

He once told me that an August evening was "as hot as three toads in a Cuisinart," a comparison that left me blinking two days later.

August, Two, Hot

Dean Koontz (2007). “Seize the Night: A Novel”, p.237, Bantam

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.

Writing, Ideas, Literature

Although she had resisted this knowledge all her life, had lived determinedly in the future focused there by ambition, she understood at last that this was the real condition of humanity: The dance of life occurred not yesterday or tomorrow, but only here at the still point that was the present. This truth is simmple, sel-evident, but difficult to accept, for we sentimentalize the past and wallow in it, while we endure the moment and in every waking hour dream of the future.

Dream, Real, Ambition

Dean Koontz (2007). “The Taking: A Novel”, p.193, Bantam

From time to time, I do consider that I might be mad. Like any self-respecting lunatic, however, I am always quick to dismiss any doubts about my sanity.

Self, Mad, Doubt

Dean Koontz (2014). “The Odd Thomas Series 7-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd”, p.81, Bantam

The rain wasn't the usual glittering silver, but dark and dirty, as if nature were a scrubwoman wringing out a filthy mop.

Rain, Dirty, Dark

Dean Koontz (2007). “False Memory”, p.59, Bantam

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