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Dean Koontz quotes about writing

American Author, Writer July 9, 1945

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Writing a novel is like making love, but it's also like having a tooth pulled. Pleasure and pain. Sometimes it's like making love while having a tooth pulled. Dean Koontz
In August of 1998, I completed Seize the Night, the sequel to my novel Fear Nothing, one of many of my books in which a dog is among the cast of principal characters. Every time I wrote a story that included a canine, my yearning for a dog grew. Readers and critics alike said I had an uncanny knack for writing convincingly about dogs and even for writing from a dog's point of view. When a story contained a canine character, I always felt especially inspired, as if some angel watching over me... Dean Koontz
But once an idea for a novel seizes a writer...well, it’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 can’t just walk away from the fire; it keeps burning. The only way to put it out is to write the book. Dean Koontz
When Mary Shelley took a local legend based on truth and crafted fiction from it, she'd made Victor a tragic figure and killed him off. He understood her dramatic purpose for giving him a death scene, but he loathed her for portraying him as tragic and a failure. Her judgement of his work was arrogant. What else of consequence did she ever write? And of the two, who was dead - and who was not? Dean Koontz
Dean Koontz quote: "The desire to write well can never be fulfilled without hard..."
The desire to write well can never be fulfilled without hard work. Dean Koontz
Ozzie Boone... insists that I keep the tone light in these biographical manuscripts. He believes that pessimism is strictly for people who are over-educated and unimaginative. Ozzie counsels me that melancholy is a self-indulgent form of sorrow. By writing in an unrelievedly dark mode, he warns, the writer risks culturing darkness in his heart, becoming the very thing that he decries. Dean Koontz
If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that's more than just entertainment-which is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people. Dean Koontz
Dean Koontz quote: "I think it's the people who have no doubt that every word they..."
I think it's the people who have no doubt that every word they put down is gold that probably don't write very well. Dean Koontz
Dean Koontz quote: "If you write with passion in your own style, you will make a..."
If you write with passion in your own style, you will make a place for yourself Dean Koontz
Dean Koontz quote: "I don't write a quick draft and then revise; instead, I work..."
I don't write a quick draft and then revise; instead, I work slowly page by page, revising and polishing. Dean Koontz
Dean Koontz quote: "I never discuss a novel while I'm writing it, for fear that..."
I never discuss a novel while I'm writing it, for fear that talking about it will diminish my desire to write it. Dean Koontz
The only reason I would write a sequel is if I were struck by an idea that I felt to be equal to the original. Too many sequels diminish the original. Dean Koontz
Dean Koontz quote: "If you have to pay the bills, and you write something you're..."
If you have to pay the bills, and you write something you're not proud of, use a pen-name for that. Dean Koontz

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