Harlan Coben Quotes
I never bought the excuse of not having time to write. If you really want to do it, you're either going to find those hours or eventually decide not to be a writer.
Quotes to Explore
-
As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true.
-
Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.
-
There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake.
-
I gave up on the delusion that these players enjoy soccer as much as I do, that they play for the love of the game.
-
'Glee' is one of the very few mainstream outlets that is giving a voice to communities of people that don't necessarily have a loud voice, specifically the gay community. It gives a really positive and forward statement.
-
We live in a world now where everything is tweeted and Instagrammed and tagged and now, God help us, Vined. Calling out grievances over Twitter has become an industry norm.
-
Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.
-
Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
-
It would be nice to be on the charts again, nice to be recognised.
-
We've got to step up our conservation efforts before it's too late. We're not protecting our lands and natural resources. Take the Grand Canyon for example; I'm sure that at one time it was a beautiful piece of land, and just look at the way we've let it go.
-
For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.
-
The foundations and the intent of the Affordable Care Act are laudable. The way it's being implemented is a disaster.
-
And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me.
-
No one wants to see a person on TV who's super-ultra-cool. That's Superman, that's a thing of the past. Heroes are now flawed, and have terrible tempers, you know? They're real people.
-
The kitchen is tough. It's one of the last bastions in civilized culture that sets out to crush the spirit.
-
It was always my dream to be part of MTV and make history.
-
Environmental concern is a phenomena that tends to rise in a nation after a certain level of wealth.
-
If the future, as imagined in literature, is really the present taken to extremes, then the past is also the present, but boiled down.
-
People think that I'm mean because I'm quiet, and I don't really go out places or because I don't really say too much. On the other hand, people think that I'm soft because I may not handle myself the way other people handle themselves. That's just not me. They don't know my background or none of that stuff.
-
The only way you can raise the debt ceiling is to change the trajectory of spending - that's my personal preference. But I want the Ways and Means Committee to offer up a solution.
-
I think Serena Williams is the best tennis player of this generation, if not the best ever. It is amazing for her to be playing as well as she is at the age of 31.
-
The ku-magic is a very ancient magic. It predates Taoism, Buddhism and Confucianism.
-
It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.
-
I never bought the excuse of not having time to write. If you really want to do it, you're either going to find those hours or eventually decide not to be a writer.
