Harlan Coben Quotes
I'm not very happy idle. There's always this voice in my head that says, 'I should be writing.'
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When I was around eight, I learned how to touch-type at school, and I received a computer as a present. I started writing plays, and for many years I thought I would be a playwright.
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You can't have an up without a down, a right without a left, a back without a front - or a happy without a sad.
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If you love attention and have a pretty decent voice, that's a pretty good combination.
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I guess I went into journalism to save the world. I always felt through writing that I wanted to rotate the world slightly.
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Writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' was a fun exercise in mixing just the right amount of the Bard with just the right amount of everyone's favorite galaxy far, far away.
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Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it.
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High fashion has become representative of stability in unstable places; that allows you to have a voice in the world stage.
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I am just doing photo shoots. It's not something that extraordinary. I'm not a great artist, I'm not writing books, I'm not a painter, and people in the streets ask me for a picture or a note, and I say, 'Why?'
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I like writing about biology, not doing it.
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I can be collaborative, for instance, in situations where I go and study the artist's work before I start writing. Then I can at least try to write towards their style.
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Well, as an artist, I think that Elvis's generosity to me he always talked very highly about me, he always spoke very highly about my work and singing and my writing.
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I worked initially in very low-budget independent films that I often wrote. My early work was all written by myself, and then I adapted 'Tsotsi,' so I was used to the writing process being, in a way, integral to my directing. I felt it really prepared me.
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'But,' say the puling, pusillanimous cowards, 'we shall be subject to a long and bloody war if we declare independence.' On the contrary, I affirm it the only step that can bring the contest to a speedy and happy issue.
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The ego being shattered is not what frightens me - that can be useful for writing - but the ego being inflated is sort of like it dying of gout.
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I don't think I'd ever make an album of just covers because I love writing my own music.
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I like collaboration because, first of all, I'm good at writing lyrics. I don't know how to make beats. I don't play instruments. I'm not a good singer. So even when you see a solo album of mine, it's still a collaboration.
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Writing is agony. I hate it.
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Arendt did have a certain snobbishness, though in some of her writing she expressed more democratic attitudes.
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When I'm writing books, something weird happens; and the result is the books contain a large amount of what you could call 'supernaturalism.' As a writer, I find I need that to explain the world I'm writing about.
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The sophist, in contradistinction to the philosopher, is not set in motion and kept in motion by the sting of the awareness of the fundamental difference between conviction or belief and genuine insight.
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New York grabbed me too hard, as did adulthood.
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I wrote all four of my books at Starbucks.
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I'm not very happy idle. There's always this voice in my head that says, 'I should be writing.'
