Harlan Coben Quotes

What I want to do is tell stories about normal people in the American suburbs. I don't write the book where it's a conspiracy reaching the prime minister; I don't write the book with the big serial killer who lops off heads. My setting is a very placid pool of suburbia, family life. And within that I can make pretty big splashes.

Harlan Coben

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 4, 1962

Topics

LifeFamilyPeopleBookAmerican

I would have liked to see where we would have the authority to arrest illegal aliens just by being here illegally and book them into our jails, but that's not going to happen.

Joe Arpaio

BookAuthoritySeeHappenGoing

Learning is a tunnel experience that makes us think more broadly.

Anna Deavere Smith

LearningExperienceThinkMoreUs

New York City is the greatest city on the planet. It's the capital of the world.

Andy Mineo

New YorkCityWorldNewPlanetYork

Fixing this broken system will take the perspective of someone who has actually solved problems. 31 years of manufacturing taught me how.

Ron Johnson

PerspectiveBrokenMeProblemsWill

And it has become a kind of a truism in the study of creativity that you can't be creating anything with less than 10 years of technical knowledge immersion in a particular field.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

KnowledgeCreativityYouCreating

I don't mean to insult television, but a lot of the time, it's pretty straightforward. If you say, 'I love you,' you mean 'I love you.' There isn't time for anything more.

Michael Learned

LoveI Love YouTimeYouTelevision

The name Firefox is not part of the open source licence, and that's why it's important to us.

Mitchell Baker

NameImportantWhyOpenSourceUs

It is the most wonderful feeling in the world, knowing you are loved and wanted.

Jayne Mansfield

WorldLovedYouFeelingKnowing

I might get a break again, and I might get back on telly. If I don't, I'll just keep doing stand-up and doing the best gigs I can.

Dominic Holland

BestDoingBackI CanBreakGet

The degree to which campaigns have become dominated by marketing is breaking the spirit of democracy, and we're all just so sick of it, across party lines.

David Weinberger

DemocracySickMarketingPartyJust

In all of my looking at happiness, one thing I noticed right away is that the opposite of happiness isn't unhappiness or even depression, it's anxiety. It is something that can constantly block our happiness, or our chance to reach that sort of meditative state in our work or our home lives.

Ariel Gore

WorkHomeHappinessDepressionReach

What interests me more than dramatic heroics are the domestic things: How do people do laundry and find food when the world is about to end?

Susan Beth Pfeffer

FoodPeopleMeWorldEndFind

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