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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.

Harlan Coben

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Harlan Coben
Age: 63
Born: 1962
Born: January 4
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Im 48 years old, not a kid anymore by any definition, but here is a universal truth that every adult at some point will realize: We are all always 17 years old, waiting for our lives to begin.
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This was a place where tattoos outnumbered teeth.
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That’s the problem with falling in love. It makes you start talking like a bad country song
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Painful memories didn't just ease back in-they shoved the door open hard, all of them and all at once
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In short, the satisfaction of creating, not necessarily the process, always lifts my heart.
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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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Frankly I'm fairly boring or fairly busy. Between writing and family, I have little time for anything else.
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Sometimes the loudest cries for help are silent.
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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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...better to have loved and lost bullshit. Don't show me paradise and then burn it down.
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Summer romances cometo an end. That was part of the deal. They are built like certain plants or insects, not able to survive more than one season. I thought we would be different. We were, I guess, but not in the way I thought. I truly believed that we would never let each other go. The young are so dumb.
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William Goldman's Marathon Man was a novel that taught me about suspense. I was maybe 16 years old when I read it and I remember thinking, You could put a gun to my head and I wouldn't put this book down. I loved that feeling - and want to give it others.
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When you like something and you're pretty good at it and you can make a living doing it, you don't ask why. You just count your blessings and go with it.
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