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Dean Koontz Quotes

American - Author | July 9, 1945 -

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

Proud You Write Pay Something Bills

If you want to publish two books a year under your own name and your publisher doesn't, maybe you need a different publisher.

Name Year You Want Need Own

Never, never try to scope the market.

Try Never Market Scope

We are coming out of a century that was taught that one way of looking at the world, that one form of behavior, is as valid as another. The idea of true evil has been blown away.

Evil World Looking Behavior True

Civilization rests on the fact that most people do the right thing most of the time.

Time Do The Right Thing People Right

Vladimir Nabokov said the two great evils of the 20th century were Marx and Freud. He was absolutely correct.

Great Said Two Century 20th Century

What we do as a society is seek simple answers.

Simple Society Answers Seek

There's sometimes a weird benefit to having an alcoholic, violent father. He really motivated me in that I never wanted to be anything like him.

Father Me Weird Sometimes Never Him

I think the world is full of evil people. I think in some ways we're in more danger now than before.

People Evil World Think Now More

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

Service Religion Think Behavior Race

Because people see violence on the movie screen, they're not going to go out and hold up a liquor store and kill somebody. It really doesn't correlate.

People Violence Go See Out Up

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.

Experience Story End Problem Never

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