Dean Koontz Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

• Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid.

  Dean Koontz

  Book, Kids, House

• If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that’s more than just entertainment-w hich is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people.

  Dean Koontz

  Struggle, Writing, People

• I have been reading Stephen King since CARRIE and hope to read him for many years to come.

  Dean Koontz

  Kings, Book, Reading

• I really believe that everyone has a talent, ability, or skill that he can mine to support himself and to succeed in life.

  Dean Koontz

  Inspirational, Believe, Skills

• I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari.

  Dean Koontz

  Book, People, Giving

• Every book has some real life in it. I was never pursued by an evil twin clone, but everything else in MR. MURDER was pretty much out of my own life.

  Dean Koontz

  Real, Book, Evil

• Writing a novel is like making love, but it's also like having a tooth pulled. Pleasure and pain. Sometimes it's like making love while having a tooth pulled.

  Dean Koontz

  Love, Pain, Writing

• I try not to spend too much time on partisan politics. Life's too short for that. I don't really believe that there have been many human problems solved by politics.

  Dean Koontz

  Believe, Life Is Short, Trying

• Language can't describe reality. Literature has no stable reference, no real meaning. Each reader's interpretation is equally valid, more important than the author's intention. In fact, nothing in life has meaning. Reality is subjective. Values and truths are subjective. Life itself is a kind of illusion. Blah, blah, blah, let's have another scotch.

  Dean Koontz

  Real, Scotch, Important

• Each reader needs to bring his or her own mind and heart to the text.

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  Heart, Mind, Needs

• I have avoided becoming stale by putting a little water on the plate, lying on the plate, and having myself refreshed in a toaster oven for 23 minutes once every month.

  Dean Koontz

  Lying, Water, Toasters

• 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.

  Dean Koontz

  True Evil, Ideas, Literature

• In my books, I never portray violence as a reasonable solution to a problem. If the lead characters in the story are driven to it, it's at the extreme end of their experience.

  Dean Koontz

  Book, Character, Stories

• 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

  Two, Choices, Presidential

• 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

  Thinking, Goal, 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.

  Dean Koontz

  Use, Literature, Levels

• 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.

  Dean Koontz

  Literature, World, Kingdoms

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

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

  Dean Koontz

  Thinking, Evil People, Literature

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

• 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

  Hands, Pieces, Literature

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

  Dean Koontz

  Thinking, Watches, Literature

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

• 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

  Good Day, Average, Please Me

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

  Dean Koontz

  Believe, Nuts, Literature

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

• Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool.

  Dean Koontz

  Courage, Giving, Desire

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Seize the Night: A Novel”, p.50, Bantam

• 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

  Wife, Scare, Looks

• If you want to publish two books a year under your own name and your publisher doesn't, maybe you need a different publisher.

  Dean Koontz

  Book, Years, Names

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