Harlan Coben Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)
Harlan Coben quotes and sayings page 2 (62 year old author). Here's quote # 11 through 20 out of the 78 we have for him.
“I'm thinking of taking up golf, but the idea of spending time with golfers frightens me.”
“Tragedy is a hell of a teacher. It's much too strict, but it's a hell of a teacher.”
“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.”
“And I love the twist. I love to fool you once, I love to fool you twice, and on the very last page, quite often - very last paragraph sometimes - I like to just play with your perception one more time in a way that makes everything that came before just a little bit different.”
“I always think the insecurity is going to go away, but it's always there. Only bad writers think they're good.”
“I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves.”
“Life may not always fall into neat chapters, and you may not always get the satisfying ending you're looking for, but sometimes a good explanation is all the rewrite you need.”
“A novel is like a sausage. You might like the final taste but you don't want to see how it was made.”
“The actual writing time is a lot shorter than the thinking time. I don't do too many notes. I keep it mostly in my head. I usually start writing a new book around January, and it's due October 1.”
“What I want to do is tell stories about normal people in the American suburbs. I don't write the book where it's a conspiracy reaching the prime minister; I don't write the book with the big serial killer who lops off heads. My setting is a very placid pool of suburbia, family life. And within that I can make pretty big splashes.”
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