Dean Koontz

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

“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.”

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

“I don't find slashing and blood flying everywhere to be scary. I just find it repulsive.”

“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.”

“When tempest tossed, embrace chaos.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.”