He felt ... a suspicion-no, a conviction-than he had been abandoned, forgotten, and that no one in the whole world cared or would ever care enough about him to really find out what he was like and what his dreams were. He was an outcast, a creature somehow vastly different from all other people, an object of scorn and derision, an outsider, secretly loathed and ridiculed by everyone who met him, even by those few who professed to love him.
Dean KoontzI believe in the possibility of miracles but, more to the point, I believe in our need for them.
Dean KoontzSoutherners have many fine qualities, charm and civility among them, and a sense of the tragic.
Dean KoontzIf you have to pay the bills, and you write something you're not proud of, use a pen-name for that.
Dean KoontzNot all popular novelists are good, but all good novelists are, sooner or later, popular.
Dean KoontzIf Edgar Allan Poe were alive today, his agent would be constantly slapping him upside the head with tightly rolled copies of his brilliant short stories and novelettes, yelling, 'Full-length novels, you moron! Pay attention! What's the matter with you -- are you shooting heroin or something? Write for the market! No more of this midlength 'Fall of the House of Usher' crap
Dean Koontz