I still try to make the "next" book my "best" book. I want to gri... by Harlan Coben

I still try to make the "next" book my "best" book. I want to grip and move you in unexpected ways.

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The ugliest truth, in the end, was still better than the pretties... by Harlan Coben

The ugliest truth, in the end, was still better than the prettiest of lies.

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Hope can be the most wonderful thing in the world or it can crush... by Harlan Coben

Hope can be the most wonderful thing in the world or it can crush your heart like an eggshell.

crush heart world

There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration,... by Harlan Coben

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

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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 course. We all have our own dreams and hopes and wants and lust and heartaches. We all have our own brand of crazy

crazy dream thinking

You bring your own weather to the picnic. by Harlan Coben

You bring your own weather to the picnic.

picnics marriage weather

I always think the insecurity is going to go away, but it's always there. Only bad writers think they're good.

insecurity going-away thinking

Trust is like that. You can break it for a good reason. But it st... by Harlan Coben

Trust is like that. You can break it for a good reason. But it still remains broken.

break broken reason

I like to see the difference between good and evil as kind of like the foul line at a baseball game. It's very thin, it's made of something very flimsy like lime, and if you cross it, it really starts to blur where fair becomes foul and foul becomes fair.

struggle-between-good-and-evil baseball games

This is the price you pay for having a great father. You get the wonder, the joy, the tender moments - and you get the tears at the end, too.

dad joy father

A novel is like a sausage. You might like the final taste but you... by 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.

finals sausage want

There's always a price you pay when you lie. Once you introduce a lie into a relationship, even for the best of intentions, it is always there. Whenever you’re with that person again, that lie is in the room too. It sits on your shoulder. Good lie or bad lie, it's in the room with you forever now. It's your constant companion.

forever pay lying

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.

dream writing book

Im 48 years old, not a kid anymore by any definition, but here is a universal truth that every adult at some point will realize: We are all always 17 years old, waiting for our lives to begin.

waiting kids years

Hope is cruel. Hope reminds me of what almost was. Hope makes the... by Harlan Coben

Hope is cruel. Hope reminds me of what almost was. Hope makes the physical ache return.

ache return

The book I always say that influenced me, subconsciously, because at the time I didn't know I wanted to be a writer, was William Goldman's 'Marathon Man.' That was the first adult thriller that I loved. I read it when I was 15 or so, when my father gave it to me.

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Only bad writers think they're good. by Harlan Coben

Only bad writers think they're good.

thinking

Kids don’t do what their parents say-they do what they see their parents do. So who was to blame here?

blame parent kids

..."better to have loved and lost" bullshit. Don't show me paradi... by Harlan Coben

..."better to have loved and lost" bullshit. Don't show me paradise and then burn it down.

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Memories, you see, hurt. The good ones most of all. by Harlan Coben

Memories, you see, hurt. The good ones most of all.

wisdom hurt memories

It was one lesson he never forgot.You don't sit back when you or a loved one is being assaulted.And you don't act like the goverment with their "proportional responses" and all that nonsense.If someone hurts you,mercy and pity must be put aside,You eliminate the enemy.You scorch the earth.

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