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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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Harlan Coben
Age: 63
Born: 1962
Born: January 4
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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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Hope is cruel. Hope reminds me of what almost was. Hope makes the physical ache return.
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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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...better to have loved and lost bullshit. Don't show me paradise and then burn it down.
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Amazing what we can self-rationalize when we really want something
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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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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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A trial is two narratives competing for your attention.
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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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I'm not very happy idle. There's always this voice in my head that says, 'I should be writing.
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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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Frankly I'm fairly boring or fairly busy. Between writing and family, I have little time for anything else.
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Only bad writers think they're good.
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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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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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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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There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.
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