Dean Koontz

Although I've said a million times that I'm not a horror writer, I do like horror. ”

I've got a long list of books I wish I'd never written-and I've kept them all out of print for the past 20 years. ”

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. ”

Sometimes there is no darker place than our thoughts, the moonless midnight of the mind. ”

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

Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid. ”

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

Readers will stay with an author, no matter what the variations in style and genre, as long as they get that sense of story, of character, of empathetic involvement. ”

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. ”

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. ”