Dean Koontz Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“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.”

“What we do as a society is seek simple answers.”

“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.”

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

“Your mind always does worse things than people can show in a movie.”

“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 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.”

“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.”

“The only reason I would write a sequel is if I were struck by an idea that I felt to be equal to the original. Too many sequels diminish the original.”

“I have to admit that when I watch a movie in which there is no moral context for the violence - I find that offensive. I think that's potentially damaging to society.”