Quote

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

Dean Koontz

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Dean Koontz
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 9
Author
Novelist
Poet
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Everett
Pennsylvania
Dean Ray Koontz
Aaron Wolfe
Brian Coffey
David Axton
Deanna Dwyer
John Hill
K.R. Dwyer
Leigh Nichols
Anthony North
Owen West
Richard Paige
Writing
Revise
Work
Draft
Quick
Slowly
Page
Pages
Instead
Polishing
Write
Revising

More quotes by Dean Koontz

Image
Sometimes it seemed that the human heart, this side of Eden, feared life more than death, light more than darkness, freedom more than surrender.
Dean Koontz
Image
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.
Dean Koontz
Image
No one can tell you what your heart should feel.
Dean Koontz
Image
The only thing I know for sure is how much I do not know.
Dean Koontz
Image
Few human beings give of themselves to another as a dog gives of itself.
Dean Koontz
Image
We are not strangers to ourselves, we only try to be.
Dean Koontz
Image
But victimhood was seductive, a release from responsibility and caring. Fear would be transmuted into weary resignation failure would no longer generate guilt but, instead, would spawn a comforting self-pity.
Dean Koontz
Image
Loneliness comes in two basic varieties. When it results from a desire for solitude, loneliness is a door we close against the world. When the world instead rejects us, loneliness is an open door, unused.
Dean Koontz
Image
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
Image
When social forces press for the rejection of age-old Truth, then those who reject it will seek meaning in their own truth. These truths will rarely be Truth at all they will be only collections of personal preferences and prejudices.
Dean Koontz
Image
Always, beneath every apparent chaos, order waits to be revealed.
Dean Koontz
Image
Pain is a gift. Humanity, without pain, would know neither fear nor pity. Without fear, there could be no humility, and every man would be a monster. The recognition of pain and fear in others give rise in us to pity, and in our pity is our humanity, our redemption.
Dean Koontz
Image
The dead are merely the countrymen of my future.
Dean Koontz
Image
His blue eyes were seas where sorrow sailed.
Dean Koontz
Image
I always thought happiness was a choice and I always chose things that made me happy, and books were one of those.
Dean Koontz
Image
The opportunity to love a dog and to treat it with kindness is an opportunity for a lost and selfish heart to be redeemed. They are powerless and innocent, and it is how we treat the humblest among us that surely determines the fate of our souls
Dean Koontz
Image
You won't find the truth of life in morbidity, only in hope.
Dean Koontz
Image
The snow did not even whisper its way to earth, but seemed to salt the night with silence.
Dean Koontz
Image
Your sense of responsibility to others can never be excessive.
Dean Koontz
Image
Death came, Death went, but Commerce flowed Eternal.
Dean Koontz