Dean Koontz - Best Quotes

Society

What we do as a society is seek simple answers.

Society

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.

Religion

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 perfectly just to refuse service to anyone based on behavior but not based on race or religion.

Power

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

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.

Politics

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 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.

Movies

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.

Dean Koontz

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.

Movies

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

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.

Life

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

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

Humor

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.

Dean Koontz

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.

Hope

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

Dean Koontz

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

Fear

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

Dean Koontz

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

Experience

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 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.

Hot Quotes

My first love is art and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.

In my world history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought who won them and who lost them – unless there is a painting a play a song or a poem that speaks of the event.

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.

Wushu is a move in Chinese a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.

The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation.

Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.

Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new.

Any work that aspires however humbly to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

When thou art at Rome do as they do at Rome.

Rock isn't art it's the way ordinary people talk.

Tell me thy company and I'll tell thee what thou art.

Author: Dean Koontz

What we do as a society is seek simple answers.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.