Dean Koontz
Dean Koontz
Dean Ray Koontzis an American author. His novels are broadly described as suspense thrillers, but also frequently incorporate elements of horror, fantasy, science fiction, mystery, and satire. Many of his books have appeared on the New York Times Bestseller List, with 14 hardcovers and 14 paperbacks reaching the number one position. Koontz wrote under a number of pen names earlier in his career, including "David Axton", "Leigh Nichols" and "Brian Coffey". He has sold over 450 million copies as reported on...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth9 July 1945
CityEverett, PA
CountryUnited States of America
Life's mysterious, strange, and full of wonders - and only a fool withdraws from it willingly and lets it pass him by.
The hatred of truth is the taproot of violence.
You know what's wrong with humanity?... The greatest gift we were given is our free will, and we keep misusing it.
In the real world as in dreams nothing is quite what it seems. -The Book of Counted Sorrows
Unreason is an essential medicine as long as you do not overdose.
Night has patterns that can be read less by the living than by the dead.
...I felt fear enter the halls of my mind, but I didn't give it the keys to every room.
I am twenty years old. To a world-wise adult, I am little more than a child. To any child, however, I am old enough to be distrusted, to be excluded forever from the magical community of the short and beardless.
I'm alive but I have no life. I'm alive but also dead. I'm dead and alive.
The truth was stranger than the official fiction.
Imagine that you are more than nothing. Evil made you, but you are no more evil than a child unborn. If you want, if you seek, if you hope, who is to say that your hope might not be answered?
What doesn't quicken dies. That's an indisputable truth of life.
What has been is no more. Change has come.
...in an infinite universe, anything that could be imagined might somewhere exist.