Harlan Coben Quotes
There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.Harlan Coben
Quotes to Explore
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What other grown-up gets told how to do their job so often as a writer?
Rachel Cusk -
In English, the sounds and melodies I created were an inspiration to me, and words came to me as I explored the sounds, and from there I was able expand on the meaning.
Utada Hikaru -
It takes three to make a child.
e. e. cummings -
A man with a silver spoon may get his share of supporters, but he can never be an inspiration for somebody! Patience and hard work are the key to every man's success.
Kailash Kher -
I get intrigued by a first lin and I write to find out why it means something to me. You make discoveries just the way the reader does, so you're simultaneously the writer and the reader.
E. L. Doctorow -
I love Rihanna. I think her style just pushes a lot of boundaries. My tomboy side takes inspiration from her.
Hailey Bieber
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The loneliest Chinese man I ever met lived halfway up the Three Gorges, in Sichuan Province.
Paolo Bacigalupi -
I've basically worked as a journalist and a writer.
Laura Moser -
I actually found not having a routine was inspiration.
Flume -
I was in a mountain biking accident and broke my sternum about three months before my unit was supposed to deploy to Iraq, and it's such a close-knit community that the idea of not getting to go is hugely jarring, so I tried to get put back in training and wound up injuring it worse.
Adam Driver -
I don't have a mentor in the strict definition. I take as much advice and inspiration as I can from the people I am close to.
Natalie Massenet -
Before I liked to write, I liked to type. I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and she had an IBM electric typewriter.
Gabrielle Zevin
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Most inspiration still comes from bicycling around San Francisco. This city never fails to inspire me. It is one of the most vibrant cities - especially visually - with a constant influx of young energy arriving daily. I love it.
Barry McGee -
I had an unhealthy obsession with 'Only Fools and Horses.' I still have to watch an episode with my brother every two or three weeks.
Jack Lowden -
In Paris, I met a young American person who immediately became the primary inspiration which awakened my vision and the leading influence that had directed my forces. Throughout my career as an artist, I refer to this person by the word 'Woman.'
Gaston Lachaise -
I was a writer for hire. I wrote to pay the bills.
Damien Chazelle -
Books are the heart of any home, and I spend hours going through books for design inspiration.
Nate Berkus -
I realise I have inadvertently become a source of inspiration and hope for people in India simply by the fact that I grew up there, went to my local university, but could go on to do well internationally.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
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Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
All great cathedrals began their building by the placement of a single stone. The building unit of a great society is the individual.
L. Ron Hubbard -
I think bolstering free trade is a boon to the dollar.
Carly Fiorina -
You know when I feel inwardly beautiful? When I am with my girlfriends and we are having a 'goddess circle'.
Jennifer Aniston -
There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.
Harlan Coben