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.
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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.
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Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.
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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.
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'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.
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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.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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It would be nice to be on the charts again, nice to be recognised.
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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.
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For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.
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The foundations and the intent of the Affordable Care Act are laudable. The way it's being implemented is a disaster.
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And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me.
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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.
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The kitchen is tough. It's one of the last bastions in civilized culture that sets out to crush the spirit.
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It was always my dream to be part of MTV and make history.
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Environmental concern is a phenomena that tends to rise in a nation after a certain level of wealth.
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If the future, as imagined in literature, is really the present taken to extremes, then the past is also the present, but boiled down.
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Eighty-five per cent of the crowd is going to fall in love with me - they're going to feel it, wow. But fifteen per cent are going to think, 'This guy is obnoxious.' I spend enormous time with them - every negative review of 'Crush It!' on Amazon has a response from me - and I can probably bring back ten of the fifteen.
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Don't put my name on it. These are simply documents I make.
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Conviction without experience makes for harshness.
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I believe in God and immortality.
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There was a lot of me trying to be a 'fixer.' I was that kind of guy. I'd meet someone who had 'so much potential' that needed 'help.' I think that was kind of my curse for a long time.
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I happen to be the kind of reader who, if I like something, I don't want it to end.
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We must take precautions against being prematurely honed sharp--since at the same time we are being prematurely honed thin.
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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.
