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
Funny, how one good cookie could calm the mind and even elevate a troubled soul.
...like a scene from the swamps of Louisiana or the mind of Poe on opium.
Your mind always does worse things than people can show in a movie.
Of all the things we can feel with our minds and bodies, severe pain is the purest, for it drives everything else from our awareness and focuses us as perfectly as we can ever be focused.
...I felt fear enter the halls of my mind, but I didn't give it the keys to every room.
Each book is a mind alive, a life revealed, a world awaiting exploration, but living people are all those things, as well—and more, because their stories haven’t yet been completely told.
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.
A great deal of phenomenal experience has fostered in me a flexibility of the mind and imagination that some might call madness
Fear is a poison produced by the mind, and courage is the antidote stored always ready in the soul
Each reader needs to bring his or her own mind and heart to the text.
Without trust, there can be no tranquil resting of the mind.
Sometimes there is no darker place than our thoughts, the moonless midnight of the mind.
Every life is complicated, every mind a kingdom of unmapped mysteries.
I can't go on to page two until I can get page one as perfect as I can make it, ... That might mean I will rewrite and rewrite page one 20, 30, 50, 100 times. I build a book the way coral reefs are formed, on all these little dead bodies of marine polyps, you know?