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Harlan Coben


American
January 4, 1962
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I'm not very happy idle.


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In short, the satisfaction of creating, not necessarily the process, always lifts my heart.


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If I didn't write, I'd be like a duvet cover; I have no other marketable skills.


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Tags: Like Other Write
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I try to stress to my children that buying something never leads to true happiness.


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I pretty much only wear Lilly Pulitzer ties because my best friend owns the company.


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Tags: Best Because Only
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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 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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Tags: Good Think Always
If I didn't write, I'd be like a duvet cover; I have no other marketable skills. Clearly I'm not meant to do anything else.
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That's what a good crime novelist - any good novelist - should do with you: play with your perceptions while showing you everything in plain sight.
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Tags: Good You Your
The preparation for building a series of thrillers based on a single character is kind of like the preparation for becoming a parent: The best part is the idea - wink, wink.
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Tags: Best Like Kind
Life may not always fall into neat chapters, and you may not always get the satisfying ending you're looking for, but sometimes a good explanation is all the rewrite you need.
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Tags: Good You Get
I like to go out and write. So I'll often go to a Starbucks or a local coffee bar, and I'll sit there and I'll write. I can write pretty much anywhere.
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Tags: Like Out Go
I can write pretty much anywhere if you give me time and some quiet. The home is not usually the best place because I have four children. It's usually pandemonium around here!
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Tags: Time Best Home
I'm 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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Tags: Truth Always Our
When I'm writing, what I pretend subconsciously is that we're cavemen, we're sitting around the fire, and I'm telling you stories. If I bore you, you're probably going to pick up a big club and hit me over the head.
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Tags: You Me Up
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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Tags: Work Fear Me
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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Tags: Time Me Because
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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