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 can't think of a more pathetic situation for an actor than to do a film and not connect to it. And I pray to God that I never face that situation.
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My mother had always taught me to write about my feelings instead of sharing really personal things with others, so I spent many evenings writing in my diary, eating everything in the kitchen and waiting for Mr. Wrong to call.
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If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's counseling; if you can use either one, it's a miracle.
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Goal scoring is a recurring theme. If you aren't scoring then you aren't going to win games. That's obvious.
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When I write for kids, I have to make sure they know what can't happen. They have to know it's a fantasy. But when I write for adults, they have to think it's real. Every detail has to be real or they won't buy it.
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I would never write a memoir, because it would be too boring.
