Harlan Coben Quotes

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• The ugliest truth, in the end, was still better than the prettiest of lies.

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  Lying, Ends, Prettiest

  Harlan Coben (2009). “Tell No One/Gone for Good”, p.754, Delta

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• Only bad writers think they're good.

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  Thinking

  Twitter post from Jan 27, 2017

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• Hope can be the most wonderful thing in the world or it can crush your heart like an eggshell.

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  Crush, Heart, World

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• There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.

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  Inspiration, Three, Desperation

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• You bring your own weather to the picnic.

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  Marriage, Weather, Picnics

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• 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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  Fall, Needs, May

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• Let me back up a little and tell you why I prefer writing to real life: You can rewrite. A novel, for example, can be cleaned up, altered, trimmed, improved. Life, on the other hand, is one big messy rough draft.

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  Real, Writing, Hands

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• Part of the human condition is that we all think that we are uniquely complex while everyone else is somewhat simpler to read. That is not true, of course. We all have our own dreams and hopes and wants and lust and heartaches. We all have our own brand of crazy

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  Dream, Crazy, Thinking

  "Six Years". Book by Harlan Coben, 2013.

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• The actual writing time is a lot shorter than the thinking time.

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  Writing, Thinking

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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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  Finals, Sausage, Want

  Twitter post from Sep 08, 2014

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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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  Broken, Reason, Break

  Harlan Coben (2008). “Hold Tight”, p.289, Penguin

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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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  Kids, Years, Waiting

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• There's always a price you pay when you lie. Once you introduce a lie into a relationship, even for the best of intentions, it is always there. Whenever you’re with that person again, that lie is in the room too. It sits on your shoulder. Good lie or bad lie, it's in the room with you forever now. It's your constant companion.

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  Lying, Forever, Pay

  Harlan Coben (2012). “Seconds Away (Book Two): A Mickey Bolitar Novel”, p.146, Penguin

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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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  Baseball, Struggle Between Good And Evil, Games

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• This is the price you pay for having a great father. You get the wonder, the joy, the tender moments - and you get the tears at the end, too.

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  Dad, Father, Joy

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• Memories, you see, hurt. The good ones most of all.

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  Wisdom, Hurt, Memories

  Harlan Coben (2009). “Tell No One/Gone for Good”, p.14, Delta

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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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  Thinking, Insecurity, Going Away

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• And I love the twist. I love to fool you once, I love to fool you twice, and on the very last page, quite often - very last paragraph sometimes - I like to just play with your perception one more time in a way that makes everything that came before just a little bit different.

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  Play, Perception, Lasts

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• Kids don’t do what their parents say-they do what they see their parents do. So who was to blame here?

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  Kids, Parent, Blame

  Harlan Coben (2008). “Hold Tight”, p.292, Penguin

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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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  Bullshit, Paradise, Lost

  Harlan Coben (2009). “Tell No One”, p.29, Dell

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• Hope is cruel. Hope reminds me of what almost was. Hope makes the physical ache return.

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  Return, Ache

  "Six Years". Book by Harlan Coben, books.google.ru. April 25, 2013.

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• You can't have an up without a down, a right without a left, a back without a front - or a happy without a sad.

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  Left, Fronts

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• The readers are the ones who let us live our dreams. I try to write books which are really compelling - that you'd take on vacation and rather than going out, you'd read in your hotel room because you had to find out what happened. Hopefully that's what readers are responding to.

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  Dream, Book, Writing

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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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  Father, Book, Men

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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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  Hurt, Enemy, Lessons

  Harlan Coben (2010). “Tell No One”, p.39, Hachette UK

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