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Harlan Coben Quotes

American - Author | January 4, 1962 -

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.

Money Vacation Me Growing Up Nice

I never bought the excuse of not having time to write. If you really want to do it, you're either going to find those hours or eventually decide not to be a writer.

Time You Find Want Never Write

Writing my first book, I think in hindsight I went into it saying, 'It's gonna sell.' I was earning enough to scrape by sometime around a book or two before 'Tell No One.' I moved up from $50,000 to $75,000, then $150,000 for each book. I had never thought I would be doing anything else. I had enough encouragement.

Writing Book Saying Think Thought

I'm not very happy idle. There's always this voice in my head that says, 'I should be writing.'

Happy Writing Voice Idle Head Very

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

Good Insecurity Think Bad Go Always

I'm a little bit of a control freak.

Control Freak Little Control Freak

The most annoying and full-of-crap thing a writer says is, 'I write only for myself, I don't care if anyone reads it.' A writer without a reader doesn't exist.

Myself Care Write Without Annoying

I'm 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.

Truth Waiting Will Old Kid Begin

Children learn much more from how you act than from what you tell them. There are times this worries me - we parents are rarely the role models we want to be. True for life. True for driving.

Life Children Parents Me Learn You

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.

Sad Happy You Back Down Right

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.

Life Me Writing You Back Hand

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.

Life Good Looking Ending You Fall

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