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Sometimes the loudest cries for help are silent.

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Harlan Coben
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: January 4
Author
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Newark
New Jersey
Loudest
Cries
Cry
Silent
Wisdom
Help
Helping
Sometimes

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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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Frankly I'm fairly boring or fairly busy. Between writing and family, I have little time for anything else.
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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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You don't worry about happiness and fulfilment when you're starving.
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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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That’s the problem with falling in love. It makes you start talking like a bad country song
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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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There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.
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Its funny how you can let yourself forget for seconds, how even in the heat of the horrible, you can have moments when you fool yourself into thinking it might all be okay
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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 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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There are few times that I feel more at peace, more in tune, more Zen, if you will, than when I force myself to unplug.
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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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I would never write a memoir, because it would be too boring.
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You bring your own weather to the picnic.
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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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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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Only bad writers think they're good.
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A trial is two narratives competing for your attention.
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Kate Atkinson is an absolute must-read. I love everything she writes.
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