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Writing Quotes by Harlan Coben
- Let me back up a little and tell you why I prefer writing to real life: You can rewrite. A novel, for example, can be…
- 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…
- Frankly I'm fairly boring or fairly busy. Between writing and family, I have little time for anything else.
- I would never write a memoir, because it would be too boring.
- 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.…
- 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.…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- I'm not very happy idle. There's always this voice in my head that says, 'I should be writing.
- The actual writing time is a lot shorter than the thinking time.
- 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…
- Outlining is not writing. Coming up with ideas is not writing. Researching is not writing. Creating characters is not writing. Only writing is writing.
More Writing Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster
- I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was… — Paul Auster
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- When we were making the law, when we were writing the literature and the mathematics the grandfarthers of Blair and little Bush… — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
- A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit. — Richard Bach
- In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold
- Writing comes more easily if you have something to say. — Sholem Asch
- Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core… — Isaac Asimov
- If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster. — Isaac Asimov
- Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not. — Isaac Asimov