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Harlan Coben
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: January 4
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Newark
New Jersey
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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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That’s the problem with falling in love. It makes you start talking like a bad country song
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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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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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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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Amazing what we can self-rationalize when we really want something
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In the end, we know what makes us happy. We also know what makes us unhappy. That's the irony. We know and yet we still mess it up. That's part of the human condition, no, and why we need to work on it.
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The actual writing time is a lot shorter than the thinking time.
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I still try to make the next book my best book. I want to grip and move you in unexpected ways.
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I like to see the difference between good and evil as kind of like the foul line at a baseball game. It's very thin, it's made of something very flimsy like lime, and if you cross it, it really starts to blur where fair becomes foul and foul becomes fair.
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There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.
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Hope is cruel. Hope reminds me of what almost was. Hope makes the physical ache return.
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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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A trial is two narratives competing for your attention.
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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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You bring your own weather to the picnic.
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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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You don't worry about happiness and fulfilment when you're starving.
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If I had, say, a tall, amateur male lead living on the campus of a rural college (Six Years), the next book might feature a short, cop who lives in the heart of Manhattan (Missing You).
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There is the old catch-22 line that a mentally unstable person can't know, as per their illness, that they are unstable. But that was wrong. You can and do have the insight to see your own crazy.
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