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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The accidents of my life have given me the ability to make stories in which different parts of the world are brought together, sometimes harmoniously, sometimes in conflict, and sometimes both - usually both. The difficulty in these stories is that if you write about everywhere you can end up writing about nowhere.
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Why is it that we don't build human settlements that will feed themselves, and fuel themselves, and catch their own water, when any human settlement could do that easily? When it's a trivial thing to do?
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When I'm in the U.K. – and I'm here more than people would think – I tend to keep a very low profile.
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Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.
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Motivation is a skill. It can be learned and practiced.
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I would never write a memoir, because it would be too boring.
