Harlan Coben Quotes

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.
Harlan Coben

Great, End, Father

I pretty much only wear Lilly Pulitzer ties because my best friend owns the company.
Harlan Coben

Best, Friend, Pretty

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.
Harlan Coben

Money, Nice, Important

Tragedy is a hell of a teacher. It's much too strict, but it's a hell of a teacher.
Harlan Coben

Teacher, Hell, Tragedy

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

Hope, Heart, Wonderful

I try to stress to my children that buying something never leads to true happiness.
Harlan Coben

Happiness, True, Children

In real life, coincidences happen all the time. In novels, they are leapt upon with fury.
Harlan Coben

Life, Time, Real

And I love the twist. I love to fool you once, I love to fool you twice, and on the very last page, quite often - very last paragraph sometimes - I like to just play with your perception one more time in a way that makes everything that came before just a little bit different.
Harlan Coben

Love, Time, Fool

I love stories. When I'm writing, what I pretend subconsciously is that we're cavemen, we're sitting around the fire, and I'm telling you stories. If I bore you, you're probably going to pick up a big club and hit me over the head.
Harlan Coben

Love, Writing, Fire

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.
Harlan Coben

Life, Good, May

When you like something and you're pretty good at it and you can make a living doing it, you don't ask why. You just count your blessings and go with it.
Harlan Coben

Good, Blessings, Pretty

A novel is like a sausage. You might like the final taste but you don't want to see how it was made.
Harlan Coben

Might, Novel, Final

A writer without a reader doesn't exist.
Harlan Coben

Writer, Exist, Reader

Frankly I'm fairly boring or fairly busy. Between writing and family, I have little time for anything else.
Harlan Coben

Family, Time, Busy

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

Good, Insecurity, Bad

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.
Harlan Coben

Love, Person, Find

I once worked as a tour guide in the Costa del Sol of Spain.
Harlan Coben

Once, Worked, Tour

I would never write a memoir, because it would be too boring.
Harlan Coben

Boring, Write, Memoir

I'm a little bit of a control freak.
Harlan Coben

Control, Bit, Freak

I'm not a big sports fan.
Harlan Coben

Sports, Big, Fan

I'm not a fan of self-help books - how can something be 'self-help' if the book itself is purportedly helping you?
Harlan Coben

Book, Books, Helping

I'm not very happy idle.
Harlan Coben

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

Happy, Writing, Head

I'm the Jerry Lewis of crime fiction.
Harlan Coben

Crime, Fiction, Jerry

I'm thinking of taking up golf, but the idea of spending time with golfers frightens me.
Harlan Coben

Time, Thinking, Idea

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: January 4, 1962

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