Dean Koontz

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

— Dean Koontz

#pay #proud #something #use #write

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. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#just #lives #more #people #something

If someone wrote it and it had a peculiar twist, I've read it. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#i #peculiar #read #someone #twist

If I drive myself to the brink of my ability, then I don't get stale or bored. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#bored #brink #drive #get #i

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. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#got #i #i wish #kept #list

I try not to spend too much time on partisan politics. Life's too short for that. I don't really believe that there have been many human problems solved by politics. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#believe #human #i #life #many

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

— Dean Koontz

#beings #exert #god-given #god-given right #human

I think it's the people who have no doubt that every word they put down is gold that probably don't write very well. ↗

— Dean Koontz

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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. ↗

— Dean Koontz

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I never discuss a novel while I'm writing it, for fear that talking about it will diminish my desire to write it. ↗

— Dean Koontz

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