Dean Koontz

If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that's more than just entertainment-which is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people. ”

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. ”

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. ”

Human beings can always be relied upon to exert, with vigor, their God-given right to be stupid. ”

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

The hands of every clock are shears, trimming us away scrap by scrap, and every time piece with a digital readout blinks us towards implosion. ”

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. ”

I don't write a quick draft and then revise; instead, I work slowly page by page, revising and polishing. ”

I receive about 10,000 letters a year from readers, and in the first year after a book is published, perhaps 5,000 letters will deal specifically with that piece of work. ”

When I'm working on a novel, I work 70-hour weeks. ”