Harlan Coben Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“I'd never had money growing up, and it's never been that important to me, except maybe to take our kids on a nice vacation or something like that.”

“When you like something and you're pretty good at it and you can make a living doing it, you don't ask why. You just count your blessings and go with it.”

“There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.”

“I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously; perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.”

“A writer without a reader doesn't exist.”

“I love stories. When I'm writing, what I pretend subconsciously is that we're cavemen, we're sitting around the fire, and I'm telling you stories. If I bore you, you're probably going to pick up a big club and hit me over the head.”

“You know, people call mystery novels or thrillers 'puzzles.' I never understood that, because when I buy a puzzle, I already know what it is. It's on the box. And even if I don't, if it's a 5,000-piece puzzle of the 'Mona Lisa', it's not like I put the last piece in and go, 'I had no idea it's the 'Mona Lisa'!'”

“I'm not a fan of self-help books - how can something be 'self-help' if the book itself is purportedly helping you?”

“Writing is one of the few activities where quantity will inevitably make quality. The more you write, the better you're going to get at it.”

“I would never write a memoir, because it would be too boring.”