Harlan Coben Quotes
In real life, coincidences happen all the time. In novels, they are leapt upon with fury.
Quotes to Explore
-
I've never been one to sit around and eat my heart out. Life's too short.
-
Crime stories are our version of sitting round a camp fire and telling tales. We enjoy being scared under safe circumstances. That's why there's no tradition of crime writing in countries that have wars.
-
Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?
-
I have got prostate cancer, and I have to keep monitoring that. It's no problem, it's under control and I'm very cool about it, but other people are dying from it.
-
Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.
-
In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
-
I have nothing to hide.
-
I'm not a collector. I toss things out all the time.
-
As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.
-
Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it.
-
Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.
-
We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind of freedom to us.
-
The advantage is I have my family with me all the time. When your daughter takes her first steps or says her first words and your son is going through potty training, I'm not missing any of those things.
-
At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.'
-
It's hard not to play golf that's up to Jack Nicklaus standards when you are Jack Nicklaus.
-
It only looks like I get to eat a lot of food on TV. I really just get the one bite and the crew and guests eat everything else.
-
The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
-
I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
-
I may be a dumb blonde, but I'm not that blonde.
-
Since I first fell in love with choral music when I was 18 and began composing at 21, I've been listening to these recordings of British choirs. I just fell in love with that sound - that pure, clean, pristine sound - and I think it's probably been the biggest influence on my sound.
-
Fun has to do with habitual activities but then also terrifically novel or unusual ones. It works as a sort of strange milkshake of those concepts.
-
What we struggle to make of it is our sole gift to Jah. The process of what that struggle becomes, in time, the Truth.
-
I had panic attacks during rehearsal. There were times when I really thought I wasn't going to be able to do it.
-
In real life, coincidences happen all the time. In novels, they are leapt upon with fury.
