Dean Koontz

The chill, like scurrying spiders, worked deeper into him, weaving webs of ice in the hollows of his bones. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#chilling #imagery #personification #beauty

Loyal companions are an unequaled grace, stanching fear before it bleeds you numb, a reliable antidote for creeping despair. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#despair #fear #friendship #grace #loyalty

There's no tragedy in nature, only process -- and therefore no triumph, either. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#nature

people have a natural tendency to anthropomorphize their pets, to ascribe human perceptions and intentions to the animal where none exist ↗

— Dean Koontz

#dogs #people #watchers #nature

My wife is my first audience. She's a tough lady, so I can't say that I ever scare her. Except, of course, when she sees me the way I look before breakfast. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#before #breakfast #course #ever #except

I think it's perfectly just to refuse service to anyone based on behavior, but not based on race or religion. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#based #behavior #i #i think #just

Each reader needs to bring his or her own mind and heart to the text. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#each #heart #her #his #mind

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

— Dean Koontz

#do the right thing #fact #most #people #rests

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. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#book #books #could #disappear #escape

One of the things I like enormously about Bob Weinstein is that that he's the only studio head I have ever known who will change his mind and say he was wrong. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#bob #change #enormously #ever #head