I realized you might make money at writing, and you might even make a living at it. So after that I didn't write stories just for the class but wrote them for the purpose of submitting them somewhere, and at some point in the process, I began writing them just to please myself and that's where you begin to see the real value of a life of writing.
Dean KoontzWriting isn't a source of pain. It's psychic chemotherapy. It reduces your psychological tumors and relieves your pain.
Dean KoontzIn a world that daily disconnects further from truth, more and more people accept the virtual in place of the real, and all things virtual are also malleable.
Dean KoontzI've had good publishers and bad publishers, and you've got to learn when the advice is sensible and when it's not.
Dean Koontzless real than such threats as a man with a gun, a woman with a knife, or a U.S. Senator with an idea.
Dean Koontz