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I'm the Jerry Lewis of crime fiction.

Harlan Coben

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Harlan Coben
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: January 4
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Newark
New Jersey
Crime
Fiction
Lewis
Jerry

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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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Writers always say, 'I always knew I wanted to be a writer when I was a three-month-old foetus a pen formed in my hand and I began to scratch my first story on the inside of my mother's womb.' I started later, in my early twenties.
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Getting into a fight with a popular senior. Pissing off a school teacher and the local chief of police. Hanging with two major-league losers. She slapped my back. Welcome to high school.
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I've never chased the dollar, I've always chased the reader's heart. I love having more readers. The more people who read it, the more thrilled I am.
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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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I try to stress to my children that buying something never leads to true happiness.
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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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Kate Atkinson is an absolute must-read. I love everything she writes.
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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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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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An hour before his world exploded like a ripe tomato under a stiletto heel, Myron bit into a fresh pastry that tasted suspiciously like urinal cake.
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There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.
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I would never write a memoir, because it would be too boring.
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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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I don't necessarily love the sports per se, I love the stories behind them. Also in a kind of perverse way I like to study what it does to us, why we care so much. It's caring about something that's utterly meaningless.
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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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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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Amazing what we can self-rationalize when we really want something
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Hope is cruel. Hope reminds me of what almost was. Hope makes the physical ache return.
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