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I'm not very happy idle. There's always this voice in my head that says, 'I should be writing.

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
Head
Happy
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Writing
Always
Idle
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