Let me back up a little and tell you why I prefer writing to real life: You can rewrite. A novel, for example, can be cleaned up, altered, trimmed, improved. Life, on the other hand, is one big messy rough draft.
I would rather raise certain topics and maybe let you ruminate on them. I'm not big on answering them. - Harlan Coben
I would rather raise certain topics and maybe let you ruminate on them. I'm not big on answering them.
- Harlan Coben
You bring your own weather to the picnic. - Harlan Coben
You bring your own weather to the picnic.
That’s the problem with falling in love. It makes you start talking like a bad country song - Harlan Coben
That’s the problem with falling in love. It makes you start talking like a bad country song
There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation. - Harlan Coben
There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.
...desperation can toy with you and if you give desperation any wiggle room, it will find alternative answers - Harlan Coben
...desperation can toy with you and if you give desperation any wiggle room, it will find alternative answers
Part of the human condition is that we all think that we are uniquely complex while everyone else is somewhat simpler to read. That is not true, of c… - Harlan Coben
Part of the human condition is that we all think that we are uniquely complex while everyone else is somewhat simpler to read. That is not true, of c…
For a short time, I hated them. But when you think about it, what good does that do?It takes so much to hold on to hate—you lose your grip on what's … - Harlan Coben
For a short time, I hated them. But when you think about it, what good does that do?It takes so much to hold on to hate—you lose your grip on what's …
Hope can be the most wonderful thing in the world or it can crush your heart like an eggshell. - Harlan Coben
Hope can be the most wonderful thing in the world or it can crush your heart like an eggshell.
A novel is like a sausage. You might like the final taste but you don't want to see how it was made. - Harlan Coben
A novel is like a sausage. You might like the final taste but you don't want to see how it was made.
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