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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.

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'm not very happy idle. There's always this voice in my head that says, 'I should be writing.
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I'm the Jerry Lewis of crime fiction.
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I like to see the difference between good and evil as kind of like the foul line at a baseball game. It's very thin, it's made of something very flimsy like lime, and if you cross it, it really starts to blur where fair becomes foul and foul becomes fair.
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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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Frankly I'm fairly boring or fairly busy. Between writing and family, I have little time for anything else.
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A dancer on break approached him. She smiled. Each tooth was angled in a different direction, as if her mouth were the masterwork of a mad orthodontist. Hi, she said. Hi. You're really cute. I don't have any money. She spun and walked away. Ah, romance.
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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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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 try to stress to my children that buying something never leads to true happiness.
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In short, the satisfaction of creating, not necessarily the process, always lifts my heart.
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Trust is like that. You can break it for a good reason. But it still remains broken.
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Amazing what we can self-rationalize when we really want something
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Hope is cruel. Hope reminds me of what almost was. Hope makes the physical ache return.
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Genius is a curse. That's how I look at it. Some think that the brilliant comprehend the universe in a way the rest of us can't. They see the world how it truly is—and that reality is so horrible the lose their minds. Clarity leads to insanity.
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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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There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.
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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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Writing my first book, I think in hindsight I went into it saying, 'It's gonna sell.' I was earning enough to scrape by sometime around a book or two before 'Tell No One.' I moved up from $50,000 to $75,000, then $150,000 for each book. I had never thought I would be doing anything else. I had enough encouragement.
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It was one lesson he never forgot.You don't sit back when you or a loved one is being assaulted.And you don't act like the goverment with their proportional responses and all that nonsense.If someone hurts you,mercy and pity must be put aside,You eliminate the enemy.You scorch the earth.
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