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
Your sense of responsibility to others can never be excessive.
Loving the ideal more than the reality is the cause of all the misery the human species creates for itself.
When life hands us a beutiful bouquet of flowers we stare at it in cautious expectation of a bee.
If wishes were filet mignon, we'd always eat well at dinner
It is music that speaks to the deepest reaches of your soul, and you are lifted higher, ever higher, by the adagio, in my opinion more so even than in any of the masses that Beethoven composed.
When new hopes fail, old hopes return in the endless cycle of desperation.
Shakespeare again. Once you let him into your head, he takes up tenancy and will not leave.
We need to laugh at the irrationality of evil, for in doing so we deny evil's power over us, diminish its influence in the world, and tarnish the allure it has for some people.
Besides, I can't get to where I want to go by conscious or unconscious suicide. I've got my strange little life to lead. Leading it the best I can - that's how I buy the ticket to where I want to be.
Inaction counted as a choice.
Are you prepared for the first wound?
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.
I have learned a great deal from novels. Some of it is even true.
Southerners have many fine qualities, charm and civility among them, and a sense of the tragic....