Dean Koontz Quotes About Writing

• Si algo de lo que escribes ayuda a la gente en su vida, eso es algo más que entretenimiento, que es lo que todos los escritores intentamos hacer, llegar a la gente.

  Dean Koontz

  Lucha, Escritura, Gente

• Pero una vez que una idea para una novela se apodera de un escritor... bueno, es como un fuego interior que al principio te calienta y te hace sentir bien pero que luego empieza a comerte vivo, a quemarte por dentro. No puedes alejarte del fuego; sigue ardiendo. La única manera de apagarlo es escribir el libro.

  Dean Koontz

  Book, Writing, Fire

  Dean Koontz (2003). “Lightning”, p.152, Penguin

• Escribir una novela es como hacer el amor, pero también es como que te saquen una muela. Placer y dolor. A veces es como hacer el amor mientras te sacan una muela.

  Dean Koontz

  Amor, Dolor, Escritura

• I realized you might make money at writing, and you might even make a living at it. So after that I didn't write stories just for the class but wrote them for the purpose of submitting them somewhere, and at some point in the process, I began writing them just to please myself and that's where you begin to see the real value of a life of writing.

  Dean Koontz

  Real, Escritura, Clase

  "The Rumpus Interview With Dean Koontz". Interview with Ben Pfeiffer, therumpus.net. December 21, 2015.

• Authors of so-called 'literary' fiction insist that action, like plot, is vulgar and unworthy of a true artist. Don't pay any attention to misguided advice of that sort. If you do, you will very likely starve trying to live on your writing income. Besides, the only writers who survive the ages are those who understand the need for action in a novel.

  Dean Koontz

  Writing, Artist, Advice

• Writing isn't a source of pain. It's psychic chemotherapy. It reduces your psychological tumors and relieves your pain.

  Dean Koontz

  Pain, Writing, Psychics

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Odd Thomas: An Odd Thomas Novel”, p.134, Bantam

• Una trama sin acción es como la pasta sin ajo, como Dolly Parton sin escote y como un escritor sin sus símiles.

  Dean Koontz

  Writing, Pasta, Garlic

• Is rule of thumb in writing game: if story requires many long descriptions of smells so vile that will give reader nausea, is not likely to find publisher.

  Dean Koontz

  Writing, Games, Smell

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

  Dean Koontz

  Writing, Week, Hours

• If you write with passion in your own style, you will make a place for yourself

  Dean Koontz

  Passion, Writing, Style

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

  Dean Koontz

  Writing, Pages, Revising

• The desire to write well can never be fulfilled without hard work.

  Dean Koontz

  Hard Work, Writing, Desire

  Dean Koontz (2008). “Watchers”, p.374, Penguin

• La única razón por la que escribiría una secuela es si me sorprendiera una idea que me pareciera igual a la original. Demasiadas secuelas disminuyen el original.

  Dean Koontz

  Writing, Ideas, Literature

• Si Edgar Allan Poe viviera hoy en día, su agente no dejaría de darle bofetadas en la cabeza con ejemplares bien enrollados de sus brillantes cuentos y novelas, gritándole: "Novelas completas, imbécil. ¡Presta atención! ¿Qué te pasa? ¿Te estás inyectando heroína o algo así? ¡Escribe para el mercado! Basta ya de esa mierda de "La caída de la casa Usher"".

  Dean Koontz

  Fall, Writing, Yelling

• Si tuviera que escribir un borrador hasta el final y luego volver atrás y empezar de nuevo, probablemente dejaría de escribir. No me parecería interesante. Tendría la sensación de haber escrito tantas cosas que no podría deshacerlas fácilmente, porque una cosa lleva a la siguiente, la interconexión, las secuencias harían muy difícil cambiar algo que simplemente no funciona.

  Dean Koontz

  Writing, Interesting, Starting Over

  "The Rumpus Interview With Dean Koontz". Interview with Ben Pfeiffer, therumpus.net. December 21, 2015.

• I don't procrastinate because I love the English language and the process of storytelling, and I'm always curious to see what will come to me next. If you procrastinate a lot, you might be one who loves having written, but doesn't so much like writing.

  Dean Koontz

  Writing, Might, Next

  "Interview with the Master of Suspense, Dean Koontz (part 1)". Interview with Trisha Sugarek, www.writeratplay.com. June 28, 2014.

• I enjoy the hell out of writing but don't like what follows: promotion and publicity, which I always strive to keep to a minimum, sometimes to my publisher's dismay.

  Dean Koontz

  Writing, Publicity, Sometimes

  "Interview with the Master of Suspense, Dean Koontz (part 1)". Interview with Trisha Sugarek, www.writeratplay.com. June 28, 2014.

• 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.

  Dean Koontz

  Dog, Book, Hard Work

• 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

  Writing, Talking, Desire

• Sometimes many publishers prefer that you write the same book every time, but I have a low boredom threshold so that isn't going to happen.

  Dean Koontz

  Book, Writing, Boredom

  "The Rumpus Interview With Dean Koontz". Interview with Ben Pfeiffer, therumpus.net. December 21, 2015.

• 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

  Escribir, Pensar, Personas

• There's still a fascination with somebody who can write at book length, no matter what the book is.

  Dean Koontz

  Book, Writing, Fascination

  "The Rumpus Interview With Dean Koontz". Interview with Ben Pfeiffer, therumpus.net. December 21, 2015.

• If you have to pay the bills, and you write something you're not proud of, use a pen-name for that.

  Dean Koontz

  Writing, Names, Use

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