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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Ferrari or Lamborghini. Never fancied one of those – too flash for me. I don't really like seeking too much attention.
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I met this woman who was a hundred, this housekeeper, a hundred years old. I interviewed her. She just told me about her whole life. She's like, 'I can't read, I can't write; I can tell you who I was working for, and I can tell you the year, but who was president?'
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There is nothing cooler than to have them singing your words back to you. The last show I did, I was kind of nervous about putting the mic out there, because you're not sure how it's going to go. But I did, and they sang the whole chorus. I thought, 'Holy crap! That is the coolest feeling.' It's the biggest rush ever.
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I think you are the best you can be when you feel free, when you feel open. So I think keeping that mentality, keeping positive, is key.
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You can't solve a dignity problem with military force.
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I would never write a memoir, because it would be too boring.
