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Dean Koontz Quotes - Page 14

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These days, people spent too much time striving to understand their feelings - and then ended up with none that were genuine.

These days, people spent too much time striving to understand their feelings - and then ended up with none that were genuine.

People, Feelings, Too Much

Dean Koontz (2007). “The Good Guy”, p.132, Bantam

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.

Two, Choices, Presidential

here in the summer desert, winter found my blood

Summer, Winter, Blood

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.19, Bantam

...what makes humanity beautiful is our free will, our individuality, our endless striving in spite of our imperfection. BY THE LIGHT OF THE MOON Chapter 27 Page 214

Beauty, Beautiful, Moon

If she possessed any memory whatsoever of the days when she'd been whole, her shattered recollections were scattered across the darkscape of her mind in fragments so minuscule that she could no more easily piece them together than she could gather from the beach all the tiny chips of broken seashells, worn to polished flakes by ages of relentless tides, and reassemble them into their original architectures.

Beach, Memories, Broken

Dean Koontz (2007). “One Door Away from Heaven: A Novel”, p.145, Bantam

I see dead people. But, then by God, I do something about it!

People, Odd Thomas, Dead People

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.34, Bantam

Sometimes it seemed that the human heart, this side of Eden, feared life more than death, light more than darkness, freedom more than surrender.

Heart, Light, Eden

I've since discovered that many human beings need no supernatural mentoring to commit acts of savagery; some people are devils in their own right, their telltale horns having grown inward to facilitate their disguise.

People, Devil, Needs

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.46, Bantam

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.

Book, Humor, Mean

Don't tell me what's necessary, you presumptupus pup. What's necessary is whatever I wish to do, regardless of how unnecessary it might be.

Wish, Pups, Might

Holy men tell us life is a mystery. They embrace that concept happily. But some mysteries bite and bark and come to get you in the dark.

Dark, Men, Mystery

Dean Koontz (2007). “Darkfall”, p.25, Penguin

I never discuss a novel while I'm writing it, for fear that talking about it will diminish my desire to write it.

Writing, Talking, Desire

Then what are you? An electronic Hannibal Lector? You can't eat my liver with fava beans through a modem, you know.

Fear, Lectors, Beans

Dean Koontz (1997). “Demon Seed”, p.64, Penguin

I can love October in September. September doesn’t care.

Care, October, September

Dean Koontz (2007). “The Darkest Evening of the Year: A Novel”, p.11, Bantam

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.

Writing, Thinking, People

We wasn't born to be all the time scared, we was born happy.

Scared, Born

The mockery of friends is affectionate, and inoculates against foolishness.

Affectionate, Mockery, Foolishness

Dean Koontz (2007). “Forever Odd: An Odd Thomas Novel”, p.66, Bantam

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.

Thinking, Watches, Literature

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

All these girls swooning over hunky vampires, what they really want is to give away their freedom, to be controlled and told what to do and not have to think -- and never die, of course. It's sick is what it is. I don't want to be a forever-young living corpse.

Girl, Thinking, Giving

Dean Koontz (2010). “What the Night Knows (with bonus novella Darkness Under the Sun): A Novel”, p.70, Bantam

Although I've said a million times that I'm not a horror writer, I do like horror.

Horror, Said, Millions

I've got evil in me as much as anyone, some desires that scare me. Even if I don't give in to them, just having them scares the living bejesus out of me sometimes. I'm no saint, the way you kid about. But I've always walked the line, walked that goddamned line. It's a mean mother of a line, straight and narrow, sharp as a razor, cuts right into you when you walk it long enough. You're always bleeding on that line, and sometimes you wonder why you don't just step off and walk in the cool grass.

Mother, Mean, Kids

Dean Koontz (2007). “Dark Rivers of the Heart: A Novel”, p.407, Bantam

If Edgar Allan Poe were alive today, his agent would be constantly slapping him upside the head with tightly rolled copies of his brilliant short stories and novelettes, yelling, 'Full-length novels, you moron! Pay attention! What's the matter with you -- are you shooting heroin or something? Write for the market! No more of this midlength 'Fall of the House of Usher' crap

Fall, Writing, Yelling

The true nature of the world was weirder than any bizarre fabric that anyone might weave from the warp and weft of imagination's loom.

Reality, Imagination, Fabric

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.1107, Bantam

Unreason is an essential medicine as long as you do not overdose.

Medicine, Long, Essentials

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.352, Bantam

If God is an author and the universe is the biggest novel ever written, I may feel as if I'm the lead character in the story, but like every man and woman on Earth, I am a suporting player in one of billions of subplots. You know what happens to supporting players. Too often they are killed off in chapter 3, or in chapter 10, or in chapter 35. A supporting player always has to be looking over his shoulder.

Character, Player, Men

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