“If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, t...” — Dean Koontz Quote

“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.”

“In Dean Koontz's novel, The House at the End of the World, the protagonist Katie,remembers a saying her husband used to say, Failure to prepare is failure to hope.”

“Hope wasn't a cottage industry; it was neither a product that she could manufacture like needlepoint samplers nor a substance she could secrete, in her cautious solitude, like a maple tree producing the essence of syrup. Hope was to be found in other people, by reaching out, by taking risks, by opening her fortress heart.”