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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
Fiction
Lewis
Jerry
Crime

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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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This was a place where tattoos outnumbered teeth.
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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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You bring your own weather to the picnic.
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I'm not very happy idle. There's always this voice in my head that says, 'I should be writing.
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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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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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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 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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I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.
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You want this so badly—this second chance, this chance at real redemption—that you can’t see the truth.
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For a short time, I hated them. But when you think about it, what good does that do?It takes so much to hold on to hate—you lose your grip on what's important, you know?
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Writing my first book, I think in hindsight I went into it saying, 'It's gonna sell.' I was earning enough to scrape by sometime around a book or two before 'Tell No One.' I moved up from $50,000 to $75,000, then $150,000 for each book. I had never thought I would be doing anything else. I had enough encouragement.
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The actual writing time is a lot shorter than the thinking time.
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The first sip of beer on a hot day is like that first finger-dip when you open a new jar of peanut butter.
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Amazing what we can self-rationalize when we really want something
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I would never write a memoir, because it would be too boring.
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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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Trust is like that. You can break it for a good reason. But it still remains broken.
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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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