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You don't worry about happiness and fulfilment when you're starving.

Harlan Coben

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Harlan Coben
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: January 4
Author
Novelist
Screenwriter
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Newark
New Jersey
Happiness
Fulfilment
Starving
Worry

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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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I'm not very happy idle. There's always this voice in my head that says, 'I should be writing.
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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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Sure, on a larger scale, it was healthy to have people out there you cared about more than yourself. She knew that. But then there was the abject fear you would lose it. They say possessions own you. Not so. Loved ones own you. You are forever held hostage once you care so much.
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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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I'm the Jerry Lewis of crime fiction.
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Amazing what we can self-rationalize when we really want something
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Writing a novel in general is like trying to reach a mountain top you'll never quite reach - so you try again and maybe get a little closer.
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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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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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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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Only bad writers think they're good.
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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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Frankly I'm fairly boring or fairly busy. Between writing and family, I have little time for anything else.
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Hope is cruel. Hope reminds me of what almost was. Hope makes the physical ache return.
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Sometimes the loudest cries for help are silent.
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Genius is a curse. That's how I look at it. Some think that the brilliant comprehend the universe in a way the rest of us can't. They see the world how it truly is—and that reality is so horrible the lose their minds. Clarity leads to insanity.
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I would never write a memoir, because it would be too boring.
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