A long walk and grooming with a well-mannered dog is a Zen experience that leaves you refreshed and in a creative frame of mind.
Dean KoontzThere's no use wasting are energy being afraid of the devils, demons and things that go bump in the night... Because ultimately we'll never encounter anything more terrifying than the monster among us. Hell is where we make it.
Dean KoontzIn the wind, the trees, like agitated lions preparing to roar, shook their great green manes.
Dean KoontzI work on one page, revising and polishing until I can't make it better, then move on to the next. Some pages might get 20 or more drafts before I move on.
Dean KoontzSometimes there is no darker place than our thoughts, the moonless midnight of the mind.
Dean KoontzBut once an idea for a novel seizes a writer...well, itโs like an inner fire that at first warms you and makes you feel good but then begins to eat you alive, burn you up from within. You canโt just walk away from the fire; it keeps burning. The only way to put it out is to write the book.
Dean Koontz