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You Quotes by Harlan Coben
- This is the price you pay for having a great father. You get the wonder, the joy, the tender moments - and you get the…
- You know, people call mystery novels or thrillers 'puzzles.' I never understood that, because when I buy a puzzle, I already know what it is.…
- 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…
- The muse is not an angelic voice that sits on your shoulder and sings sweetly. The muse is the most annoying whine. The muse isn't…
- You can't have an up without a down, a right without a left, a back without a front - or a happy without a sad.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- A novel is like a sausage. You might like the final taste but you don't want to see how it was made.
- 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,…
- That's what a good crime novelist - any good novelist - should do with you: play with your perceptions while showing you everything in plain…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- No characters in 'Stay Close,' including the leads, are black and white. I want them to be grey. I think that makes for a much…
- 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…
- Being a parent is not for the faint of heart. I may joke about knowing fear, but the fact is, the first time I ever…
- Children learn much more from how you act than from what you tell them. There are times this worries me - we parents are rarely…
More You Quotes
- Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You… — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
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- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I believe more in precision, when you have the capability, like when you see a mosquito fly and you're able to hit… — Alexis Arguello
- I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going on in… — Alexis Arguello
- Haiti, Haiti, the further I am from you, the less I breathe. Haiti, I love you, and I will love you always.… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide