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

I think it's perfectly just to refuse service to anyone based on behavior, but not based on race or religion.
Dean Koontz

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.
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

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

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

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

If I drive myself to the brink of my ability, then I don't get stale or bored.
Dean Koontz

If someone wrote it and it had a peculiar twist, I've read it.
Dean Koontz

If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that's more than just entertainment-which is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people.
Dean Koontz

If you have to pay the bills, and you write something you're not proud of, use a pen-name for that.
Dean Koontz

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

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

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

Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.
Dean Koontz

Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish.
Dean Koontz

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

Never, never try to scope the market.
Dean Koontz

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

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