Quote

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.

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
Doesn
Screen
Reality
Screens
Going
Stores
Really
Kill
People
Hold
Violence
Correlate
Somebody
Liquor
Movie
Store

More quotes by Dean Koontz

Image
There’s just something unsettling about studying your reflection. It’s not a matter of being dissatisfied with your face or of being embarrassed by your vanity. Maybe it’s that when you gaze into your own eyes, you don’t see what you wish to see—or glimpse something that you wish weren’t there.
Dean Koontz
Image
the worst happens when you least expect it
Dean Koontz
Image
Writing isn't a source of pain. It's psychic chemotherapy. It reduces your psychological tumors and relieves your pain.
Dean Koontz
Image
There are no explanations for human evil. Only excuses.
Dean Koontz
Image
Whiskers of the cat, Webbed toes on my swimming dog God is in the details.
Dean Koontz
Image
I don't mean to imply that I'm afraid of Death. I'm just not ready to go out on a date with him.
Dean Koontz
Image
Every talent is unearned, however, and with it comes a solemn obligation to use it as fully and as wisely as possible.
Dean Koontz
Image
The hatred of truth is the taproot of violence.
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
Civilization rests on the fact that most people do the right thing most of the time.
Dean Koontz
Image
In misfortune lies the seed of future triumph.
Dean Koontz
Image
Evil is no faceless stranger, living in a distant neighborhood. Evil has a wholesome, hometown face, with merry eyes and an open smile. Evil walks among us, wearing a mask which looks like all our faces.
Dean Koontz
Image
His blue eyes were seas where sorrow sailed.
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
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
No one can tell you what your heart should feel.
Dean Koontz
Image
The desire to write well can never be fulfilled without hard work.
Dean Koontz
Image
You have to stop worrying about looking foolish, 'cause fear of being humiliated really limits you.
Dean Koontz
Image
Intuition is seeing with the soul.
Dean Koontz
Image
Never, never try to scope the market.
Dean Koontz