Harlan Coben Quotes

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.
Harlan Coben

Love, Sports, Care

I like to go out and write. So I'll often go to a Starbucks or a local coffee bar, and I'll sit there and I'll write. I can write pretty much anywhere.
Harlan Coben

Pretty, Coffee, Often

I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves.
Harlan Coben

Life, Happy, Live

I love to fool you once, I love to fool you twice, I love to fool you a third time. And just when you think it's all over, I have what I call that Carrie hand-out-of-the-grave moment. Just when you think it's all over, I'm going to hit you with just one more. I can't help myself.
Harlan Coben

Love, Time, Fool

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 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.
Harlan Coben

Time, Find, Write

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

Once, Worked, Tour

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.
Harlan Coben

Book, Thought, Remember

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

Boring, Write, Memoir

I wrote seven Myron Bolitar novels in a row, and I never want to write a Myron book where he just solves a crime. Every one of them I want to be personal, and I want him to grow and change. The problem with that is, it makes the series limited, you can't write a series where a guy is always going through some kind of crisis.
Harlan Coben

Change, Crisis, Book

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.
Harlan Coben

Truth, Waiting, Old

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

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.
Harlan Coben

Love, Heart, Read

If I didn't write, I'd be like a duvet cover; I have no other marketable skills.
Harlan Coben

Write, Skills, Cover

If I didn't write, I'd be like a duvet cover; I have no other marketable skills. Clearly I'm not meant to do anything else.
Harlan Coben

Else, Write, Clearly

If I don't write, I hate myself. Simple as that. My life is out of balance.
Harlan Coben

Life, Hate, Simple

If I'm not writing well, I'm not happy. If I'm not spending enough time with my family, I'm not happy. If I'm not connecting to friends or if I don't work out enough... You get the point. Everything has to be balanced. Nothing should be an extreme.
Harlan Coben

Work, Family, Time

In short, the satisfaction of creating, not necessarily the process, always lifts my heart.
Harlan Coben

Heart, Short, Process

In the end, we know what makes us happy. We also know what makes us unhappy. That's the irony. We know and yet we still mess it up. That's part of the human condition, no, and why we need to work on it.
Harlan Coben

Work, Happy, End

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: January 4, 1962

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