Best Harlan Coben Quotes
- I'm the Jerry Lewis of crime fiction. Crime
- 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… Always Chased
- That's what a good crime novelist - any good novelist - should do with you: play with your perceptions while showing you everything in plain… Any
- We're called New Jersey but we're actually the suburbs of New York. Called
- I am very lucky that I get to tell stories for a living. I love being able to grab people's attention, to keep them turning… Able
- I like to see the difference between good and evil as kind of like the foul line at a baseball game. It's very thin, it's… Baseball
- I am, after all, a thriller writer. I routinely delve into the darkest chambers of the human heart. I've written about murder, kidnapping, depravity, horror,… All
- I don't find any real rivalries with crime and thriller writers anyway. That might sound a little Pollyanna, but for the most part the writers… All
- My house has too many distractions. There's the email. There's checking my Amazon ranking. I know I'm the only author who's ever done that, ever.… Amazon
- The actual writing time is a lot shorter than the thinking time. I don't do too many notes. I keep it mostly in my head.… Actual
- The book I always say that influenced me, subconsciously, because at the time I didn't know I wanted to be a writer, was William Goldman's… Adult
- The preparation for building a series of thrillers based on a single character is kind of like the preparation for becoming a parent: The best… Based
- The readers are the ones who let us live our dreams. I try to write books which are really compelling - that you'd take on… Book
- 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… American
- When I was seventeen, I worked as a counsellor at a co-ed sleep-away camp for eight weeks. I loved it but it could be harrowing… Age
- Writers always say, 'I always knew I wanted to be a writer; when I was a three-month-old foetus a pen formed in my hand and… Always Knew
- Writing my first book, I think in hindsight I went into it saying, 'It's gonna sell.' I was earning enough to scrape by sometime around… Anything Else
- What I love about the thriller form is that it makes you write a story. You can't get lost in your own genius, which is… Best
- There are few times that I feel more at peace, more in tune, more Zen, if you will, than when I force myself to unplug. Feel
- Painful memories didn't just ease back in-they shoved the door open hard, all of them and all at once All
- You want this so badly—this second chance, this chance at real redemption—that you can’t see the truth. Badly
- The most annoying and full- of- crap thing a writer says is, I write only for myself, I don't care if anyone reads it. A… Annoying
- Only bad writers think they're good. Bad
- In short, the satisfaction of creating, not necessarily the process, always lifts my heart. Always Lifts
- "So basically, that entire theory is blown to hell."Not basically," Win corrected. "Entirely." Blown