Harlan Coben Quotes

Outlining is not writing. Coming up with ideas is not writing. Researching is not writing. Creating characters is not writing. Only writing is writing.

Harlan Coben

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

IdeasWritingCreatingComingUp

'Time' was a glorious place to work in the years that I was there, from 1959 to 1964.

John Gregory Dunne

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The first pork-barrel bill that crosses my desk, I'm going to veto it and make the authors of those pork-barrel items famous all over America.

John McCain

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We need, ultimately, to be able to view mental health with the same clear-headedness we show when talking about physical health.

Matt Haig

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When Kobe talks, I shut up and stay out of his way.

Metta World Peace

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I've been writing fiction since I was a kid. From the age of 15 to 25, I probably wrote more than 50 short stories, one of which was published in 'The Paris Review' in 1989.

Amor Towles

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I took up arms for the freedom of my color. It is our own - we will defend it or perish.

Toussaint Louverture

FreedomColorWillDefendUpOwn

In my life, I was always floating around the edge of the dark side and saying what if take it a little bit too far, and who says you have to stop there, and what's behind the next door. Maybe you gain a wisdom from examining those things. But after a while, you get too far down in the quicksand.

Trent Reznor

LifeWisdomDoorSayingMy LifeYou

I'm one of those fortunate actors who gets to work pretty much every day. I've had a run of good fortune and work with some terrific people who have hired me.

Rob Paulsen

WorkGoodDayPeopleMeEvery Day

We have to understand how the extremists got the way they are. Without that kind of understanding, we'd never really get to know them. I put in nothing about their childhoods. But what I have put in is stuff about the weird symbiotic relationship between us and them.

Jon Ronson

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I was raised on Elvis Presley and Buddy Holly and discovered the Stray Cats when I was 11 or 12 years old.

Drake Bell

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The umlaut isn't on my birth certificate. I had this book as a child called Chloe and Maude, and there was an umlaut on the e, and I said, I want that! It's a little flair. Just to confuse people even more.

Chloe Sevigny

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Stephen Sondheim I am in awe of.

Christoph Waltz

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