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In real life, coincidences happen all the time. In novels, they are leapt upon with fury.

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Harlan Coben
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: January 4
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Being a parent is not for the faint of heart. I may joke about knowing fear, but the fact is, the first time I ever knew real fear was the day Charlotte, my first child, was born. Suddenly there is someone in the world you care about more than anything.
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A novel is like a sausage. You might like the final taste but you don't want to see how it was made.
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Its funny how you can let yourself forget for seconds, how even in the heat of the horrible, you can have moments when you fool yourself into thinking it might all be okay
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...desperation can toy with you and if you give desperation any wiggle room, it will find alternative answers
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There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.
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I try to stress to my children that buying something never leads to true happiness.
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Only bad writers think they're good.
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A trial is two narratives competing for your attention.
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In short, the satisfaction of creating, not necessarily the process, always lifts my heart.
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I always think the insecurity is going to go away, but it's always there. Only bad writers think they're good.
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The book I always say that influenced me, subconsciously, because at the time I didn't know I wanted to be a writer, was William Goldman's 'Marathon Man.' That was the first adult thriller that I loved. I read it when I was 15 or so, when my father gave it to me.
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We all think that we are uniquely complex, that no one can see what we are thinking - yet we also believe that we have the rare ability to read others. This fascinates me at the moment.
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I'm the Jerry Lewis of crime fiction.
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This was a place where tattoos outnumbered teeth.
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I am very lucky that I get to tell stories for a living. I love being able to grab people's attention, to keep them turning the pages, to make them stay awake all night. I want to stir the pulse, yes, but also to stir the heart. I hope 'The Woods' does that.
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This is the price you pay for having a great father. You get the wonder, the joy, the tender moments - and you get the tears at the end, too.
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The muse is not an angelic voice that sits on your shoulder and sings sweetly. The muse is the most annoying whine. The muse isn't hard to find, just hard to like - she follows you everywhere, tapping you on the shoulder, demanding that you stop doing whatever else you might be doing and pay attention to her.
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