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Only bad writers think they're good.
Harlan Coben
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Harlan Coben
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: January 4
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Getting into a fight with a popular senior. Pissing off a school teacher and the local chief of police. Hanging with two major-league losers. She slapped my back. Welcome to high school.
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I always think the insecurity is going to go away, but it's always there. Only bad writers think they're good.
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What I want to do is tell stories about normal people in the American suburbs. I don't write the book where it's a conspiracy reaching the prime minister I don't write the book with the big serial killer who lops off heads. My setting is a very placid pool of suburbia, family life. And within that I can make pretty big splashes.
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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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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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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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A trial is two narratives competing for your attention.
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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 book I always say that influenced me, subconsciously, because at the time I didn't know I wanted to be a writer, was William Goldman's 'Marathon Man.' That was the first adult thriller that I loved. I read it when I was 15 or so, when my father gave it to me.
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I would never write a memoir, because it would be too boring.
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I love to make even villains people you can relate to. When you find out who did it, I think you almost like the person, which is not easy to do.
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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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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 the Jerry Lewis of crime fiction.
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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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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
Harlan Coben
There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.
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This was a place where tattoos outnumbered teeth.
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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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