American - Author | January 4, 1962 -
I'm not a big sports fan.
Harlan Coben
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I've never chased the dollar, I've always chased the reader's heart. I love having more readers. The more people who read it, the more thrilled I am.
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I don't necessarily love the sports per se, I love the stories behind them. Also in a kind of perverse way I like to study what it does to us, why we care so much. It's caring about something that's utterly meaningless.
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I love to make even villains people you can relate to. When you find out who did it, I think you almost like the person, which is not easy to do.
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I once worked as a tour guide in the Costa del Sol of Spain.
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Frankly I'm fairly boring or fairly busy. Between writing and family, I have little time for anything else.
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I pretty much only wear Lilly Pulitzer ties because my best friend owns the company.
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If I didn't write, I'd be like a duvet cover; I have no other marketable skills.
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I remember the days of sitting at book signings, playing with my pen when no one would come, and still I even then thought I was living the dream, because I had a book out.
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Sometimes even when the book is over I don't know who's good and who's bad. It's really more interesting, I think, to write about gray characters than it is to write about black and white.
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That's what a good crime novelist - any good novelist - should do with you: play with your perceptions while showing you everything in plain sight.
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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.
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