Harlan Coben Quotes
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The sun never sets on my gallery.
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I have been offered a lot for my work, but never everything.
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I have never believed in the impossible.
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I never threatened him and no Syrian intelligence officer has ever pointed a gun to his head.
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I just realized quite early on that I'm not going to be the type who can write a novel every two years. I think you need to feel an urgency about the act. Otherwise, when you read it, you feel no urgency, either. So I don't write unless I really feel I need to, and that's a luxury.
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It was never the goal to be a solo performer. It was just something that made the most sense at the time.
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Love can never be fully explained.
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I've never met anyone that is their image.
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I really tend to write in retrospect.
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Feeling comfortable in my own skin has never been easy for me.
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In my case, I write in the past because I'm not really part of the present. I have nothing valid to say about anything current, though I have something to say about what existed then.
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One thing I can say about George... he may not be able to keep a job, but he's not boring.
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The one thing I will never do is become pigeonholed.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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We never see ourselves as others see us.
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To be honest, I have never thought about getting into direction.
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I don't have a lot of patience for boring arthouse movies.
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The power to command has never meant the power to remain mysterious.
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I never deviated from my grim determination to someday have all the money I needed and wanted.
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I don't know how to write jokes from the point of view of a six-foot-two guy. So, I'll always talk about it, but I just don't want it to be the absolute focus of all of my act.
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Television: The device that brings into your living room characters you would never allow in your living room.
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So, I guess motherhood and the threat of not being able to pay my rent inspired me to be a novelist. But as far as what inspired me to be a writer, it's the stories. It sounds very cliched, but the stories rise up and demand to be told. They always have done, long before I became a writer.
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Selling a film option and getting a studio on board can be a slow process, and until things are official, you never want to spill the beans.
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I would never write a memoir, because it would be too boring.
