Dean Koontz

Civilization rests on the fact that most people do the right thing most of the time.

The hands of every clock are shears, trimming us away scrap by scrap, and every time piece with a digital readout blinks us towards implosion.

Because people see violence on the movie screen, they're not going to go out and hold up a liquor store and kill somebody. It really doesn't correlate.

I don't write a quick draft and then revise; instead, I work slowly page by page, revising and polishing.

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.

When I'm working on a novel, I work 70-hour weeks.

In my personal life, I'm a comic novel. But then, so are we all, because we're human beings.