If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, thatโs more than just entertainment-w hich is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people.
Dean KoontzThe human imagination may be the most elastic thing in the universe, stretching to encompass the millions of dreams that in centuries of relectless struggle built modern civilization, to entertain the endless doubts that hamper every human enterprise, and to conceive the vast menagerie of boogeymen that trouble every human heart.
Dean KoontzIn our age, self-indulgence and self-destruction, rather than self-sacrifice, are the foundations for new heroic myths.
Dean KoontzThe broom wasn't as comforting as a flamethrower would have been, but it was better than a mop and certainly more threatening than a feather duster.
Dean KoontzWe yearn for tomorrow and the progress that it represents. But yesterday was once tomorrow, and where was progress in it? Or we yearn for yesterday, for what was or what might have been. But as we are yearning, the present is becoming the past, so the past is nothing but our yearning for second chances.
Dean Koontz