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Dean Koontz Quotes about Literature

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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.

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.

Hands, Pieces, Literature

Dean Koontz (2007). “Fear Nothing: A Novel”, p.193, Bantam

When tempest tossed, embrace chaos

Literature, Chaos, Tempest

In my personal life, I'm a comic novel. But then, so are we all, because we're human beings.

Literature, Comic, Novel

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.

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

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

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

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.

Use, Literature, Levels

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.

Thinking, Goal, Literature

I think the world is full of evil people. I think in some ways we're in more danger now than before.

Thinking, Evil People, Literature

"Contemplating Evil". Interview with Nick Gillespie and Lisa Snell, reason.com. November 1996.

A fanatic is a nut who has something to believe in.

Believe, Nuts, Literature

"Lightning". Novel by Dean Koontz (Part II, Chapter 6.4), 1988.

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.

Literature, Majority, Dean

Dean Koontz (2007). “Seize the Night: A Novel”, p.85, 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.

We are coming out of a century that was taught that one way of looking at the world, that one form of behavior, is as valid as another. The idea of true evil has been blown away.

True Evil, Ideas, Literature

What we do as a society is seek simple answers.

Simple, Answers, Literature

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

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