Dean Koontz Quotes

I find human beings to be so complex and full of beauty. Creativity is our way to express and challenge and flow. So, all you humans, create and flow! I'll be over here thinking you are beautiful and creepy and freaky and wonderful!

Use your imagination. Trust me, your lives are not interesting. Don't write them down.

The world is just - it's wonderful when you look at all the detail. It's just amazing.

News is almost more interesting to me than other people's fiction, if that makes sense. But other people's fiction in terms of design is still incredibly interesting to me.

I find that the more I depend on real life, the less interesting the story is. It's much more common for me to take something that almost-happened, or I wish had happened, and then follow that possibility.

What's interesting about writing is the invention, the creative thing. Writing about myself is a yawn.

Look at the world and see what's there. It's very beautiful. It's a very exciting but in some ways treacherous world, and all this goes into the writing.

If you did not indulge in fantasies, how else would you know if you were living an interesting life?

I don't have any solution, but I certainly admire the problem.

A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.

The type of mind that can understand good fiction is not necessarily the educated mind, but it is at all times the kind of mind that is willing to have its sense of mystery deepened by contact with reality, and its sense of reality deepened by contact with mystery.

Reading is the nourishment that lets you do interesting work.

Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth, are never alone or weary of life.

the mysterious complexity of our life is not to be embraced by maxims ... to lace ourselves up in formulas of that sort is to repress all the divine promptings and inspirations that spring from growing insight and sympathy.

I'm so blessed to be able to work with some of the best writers out there, and it's kind of like college with me sitting in a room with some of the best of the best and really taking it in and learning from them, but then also taking time to sit and tell them my stories - it's one of the biggest blessings that could have ever happened.

It is exciting to hear one of your fondest ideas formulated in one fell swoop, better than you could have done yourself.

I like looking at geniuses and listening to beautiful people.

When you're working with other artists, it's often a mix of your ideas with somebody else's, which can be extremely fruitful. But then it's also interesting to present the completely undiluted vision of what I imagine music could be. I care about both my own music and collaboration equally, and I pretty much split my time equally, as well.

To anyone who knows a writer, never underestimate the power of your encouragement.

I got saved by poetry. And I got saved by the beauty of the world.

Ideas are like fish. If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you’ve got to go deeper. Down deep, the fish are more powerful and more pure.They’re huge and abstract. And they’re very beautiful.

Sometimes you get really bitter about how the prettiest images don't typically end up attached to the most interesting music. But I just take that as a challenge to try to do something cool.

The different variables involved in anything creative, really, are massive. When it comes together, it just clicks, I suppose.

Your art is to be the praise of something that you love. It may only be the praise of a shell or a stone.