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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
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Novelist
Screenwriter
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Newark
New Jersey
Fulfilment
Starving
Worry
Happiness

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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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You bring your own weather to the picnic.
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There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.
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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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...desperation can toy with you and if you give desperation any wiggle room, it will find alternative answers
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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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Frankly I'm fairly boring or fairly busy. Between writing and family, I have little time for anything else.
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In short, the satisfaction of creating, not necessarily the process, always lifts my heart.
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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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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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The actual writing time is a lot shorter than the thinking time.
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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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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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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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Sometimes the loudest cries for help are silent.
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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'm the Jerry Lewis of crime fiction.
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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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Kate Atkinson is an absolute must-read. I love everything she writes.
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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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