Harlan Coben Quotes

The readers are the ones who let us live our dreams. I try to write books which are really compelling - that you'd take on vacation and rather than going out, you'd read in your hotel room because you had to find out what happened. Hopefully that's what readers are responding to.

Harlan Coben

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• To grow up knowing you're loved is astounding. It's a huge gift to a child.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Up
  • Child
  • Gift

• Be passionate. Be courageous. Be your best.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • Best
  • Passionate
  • Courageous

• You can't hold back. You can't think of the subtleties of playing. You just have to get out and really bare it all, and hopefully you don't fall off the plank. And if you do, hey, pick yourself up, dust yourself down, and start all over again.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Up
  • Think
  • Fall

• The average Indian doesn't care about Hollywood movies because they have far too many movies of their own to watch, to miss, and I hope a story like 'Million Dollar Arm,' that is actually about India and deals with these two Indian kids, resonates over there and makes people want to go and see the movie.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • People
  • Kids
  • Movie

• Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.

  

  Malcolm Boyd
  • Reality
  • Opinion
  • Touch

• What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to anywhere else. It's so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what I was trying to get at.

  

  Kate Thompson
  • Trying
  • American
  • Find

• Oh I've done bungee jumping. Skydiving, I have motorcycles that I ride. I'm a little bit of an adrenaline junkie in that way.

  

  Zachary Levi
  • Done
  • Way
  • Ride

• A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.

  

  Vera Wang
  • She
  • Woman
  • Never

• They thought in terms of: whatever you had that started you at the box office, this was it.

  

  Jackie Cooper
  • Thought
  • Office
  • Box

• When I think of influential females in hip-hop, my mind goes to Foxy Brown, hands down.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Mind
  • Think
  • Hands

• Sometimes you have to laugh about what gets published; sometimes it's annoying, but in general I don't care.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Sometimes
  • Care
  • Laugh

• Cooking and eating at home is made even better by the fact that you don't have to worry about driving after a couple of bottles of very nice wine. For me that's the ideal combination: working hard and enjoying the fruits of your labour.

  

  Patrick Duffy
  • Home
  • Nice
  • Couple

• I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Experience
  • Religious
  • Never

• At school I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking. But the girls on TV looked similar to me. I would say to my mum, 'The girls at school are teasing me, but I look like those girls on TV.'

  

  Candice Swanepoel
  • School
  • Me
  • Girls

• English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed.

  

  Yaya Toure
  • Space
  • Football
  • English

• It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Man
  • Health
  • Care

• If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Believe
  • Single

• Thou shalt free thyself from convention, from everyday morality.

  

  Karen Horney
  • Free
  • Everyday
  • Morality

• Decisions are always made with insufficient information. If you really knew what was going on, the decision would make itself.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Decision

• Judaism is in all my books.

  

  Bernard Werber

• I don't like war. I particularly don't like the celebration of war, which I think the administration is a little bit guilty of.

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
  • War
  • Guilty
  • Celebration

• It's the centuries, Scarlett darling. All the life lived there, all the joy and all the sorrow, all the feasts and battles, they're in the air around and the land beneath you. It's time, years beyond our counting weighing without weight on the earth. You cannot see it or smell it or hear it or touch it, but you feel it brushing your skin and speaking without sound. Time. And mystery.

  

  Alexandra Ripley
  • Life
  • Time
  • Earth

• If you want to live a long life, focus on making contributions.

  

  Hans Selye
  • Life
  • Long
  • Live

• The readers are the ones who let us live our dreams. I try to write books which are really compelling - that you'd take on vacation and rather than going out, you'd read in your hotel room because you had to find out what happened. Hopefully that's what readers are responding to.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Live
  • Dreams
  • Vacation