All DEAN KOONTZ Quotes about “Books”

“Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid.”
“I have been reading Stephen King since CARRIE and hope to read him for many years to come.”
“But once an idea for a novel seizes a writer...well, itâ€™s 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 canâ€™t just walk away from the fire; it keeps burning. The only way to put it out is to write the book.”
“I am no theologian. I would not be surprised, however, if Heaven proved to be a cozy kitchen, where delicious treats appeared in the oven and in the refrigerator whenever you wanted them, and where the cupboards were full of good books.”
“I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari.”
“Every book has some real life in it. I was never pursued by an evil twin clone, but everything else in MR. MURDER was pretty much out of my own life.”
“In my books, I never portray violence as a reasonable solution to a problem. If the lead characters in the story are driven to it, it's at the extreme end of their experience.”
“In the real world as in dreams nothing is quite what it seems. -The Book of Counted Sorrows”
“... one of those librarians who rules the stacks with an intimidating scowl, whispers quiet sharply enough to lacerate the tender inner tissues of the ear, and will pursue an overdue-book fine with the ferocity of a rabid ferret.”
“Each book is a mind alive, a life revealed, a world awaiting exploration, but living people are all those things, as wellâ€”and more, because their stories havenâ€™t yet been completely told.”
“In a book, even the real bastards can't hurt you. And you can never loose a friend you make in a book. When you get to a sad part, no one's there to see you cry. Or wonder why you don't cry when you should.”
“I receive about 10,000 letters a year from readers, and in the first year after a book is published, perhaps 5,000 letters will deal specifically with that piece of work.”
“It may sound strange, but when you're a kid and you're in that environment, for some reason for a long time you think, when the doors are closed in other houses, this is what it's like everywhere. And then at some point you begin to realize that isn't true, and books were really the educational system that showed me that there were many better and different ways to live a life.”
“I build a book the way coral reefs are built: millions of little calcareous skeletons piling up one atop another, though in my case the skeletons are drafts.”
“There's still a fascination with somebody who can write at book length, no matter what the book is.”
“Books are packaged dreams.”
“I've always operated with a great deal of self-doubt. Every time I start a new book it's like, well, this one will destroy the career and I have to overcome that feeling especially in the first hundred pages of the book.”
“Eventually, as my books became best-sellers, the nickels pile up and one day I was offered a substantial four-book deal that was lucrative as any airliner hijacking in history. Though writing those four books was hard work, at least I didn't have to wear Kevlar body armor, carry heavy bandoliers of spare ammunition, or work with associates named Mad Dog.”
“When I'm in the middle of a book it can go up from there. When you're putting in those hours, the real world kind of fades and the world you're creating becomes almost more real to you than the outside world.”
“The problem with movies and books is they make evil look glamorous, exciting, when it's no such thing. It's boring and it's depressing and it's stupid. Criminals are all after cheap thrills and easy money, and when they get them, all they want is more of the same, over and over. They're shallow, empty, boring people who couldn't give you five minutes of interesting conversation if you had the piss-poor luck to be at a party full of them. Maybe some can be monkey-clever, some of the time, but they aren't hardly ever smart.”
“I like to deal with EVERY aspect of our condition, and that means terror and humor in equal mix. Some books have more room for humor than others.”
“Books had shown me, however, that all people everywhere wanted their lives to have purpose and meaning. This longing was universal.”
“I always thought happiness was a choice and I always chose things that made me happy, and books were one of those.”
“I've got a long list of books I wish I'd never written-and I've kept them all out of print for the past 20 years.”

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