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Harlan Coben
American
Author
Born:
Jan 4
,
1962
Life
Me
People
Time
Writing
You
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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 'Marathon Man.' That was the first adult thriller that I loved. I read it when I was 15 or so, when my father gave it to me.
Harlan Coben
Time
Me
Man
Book
Father
First
Gave
Say
William
Thriller
Writer
Adult
Know
Read
Because
Always
Subconsciously
Influenced
Wanted
Loved
Marathon
I'm the Jerry Lewis of crime fiction.
Harlan Coben
Crime
Crime Fiction
Fiction
Jerry
Lewis
I can write pretty much anywhere if you give me time and some quiet. The home is not usually the best place because I have four children. It's usually pandemonium around here!
Harlan Coben
Time
Best
Home
Me
You
Some
Pretty
Give
Give Me
Write
Because
Around
Quiet
Children
Place
Anywhere
Much
Four
Here
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
You
Made
Final
See
Like
How
Taste
Want
Might
Novel
Sausage
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
People
Having
More
Thrilled
More People
Chased
Never
Read
Reader
Readers
Always
Am
Dollar
Who
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
Caring
Way
Kind
Per
About
Something
Study
Like
Also
Does
Behind
Stories
Them
Us
Much
Meaningless
Perverse
Why
Utterly
Necessarily
I once worked as a tour guide in the Costa del Sol of Spain.
Harlan Coben
Once
Guide
Tour
Spain
Worked
If I didn't write, I'd be like a duvet cover; I have no other marketable skills.
Harlan Coben
Other
Write
Like
Cover
Skills
Sometimes even when the book is over I don't know who's good and who's bad. It's really more interesting, I think, to write about gray characters than it is to write about black and white.
Harlan Coben
Good
Book
Sometimes
Black
Black And White
White
Think
Characters
Bad
About
More
Write
Over
Know
Than
Interesting
Really
Even
Gray
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 the pages, to make them stay awake all night.
Harlan Coben
Love
People
Living
Tell
All Night
Stay
Able
Attention
Make
Am
Very
Grab
Get
Being
Stories
Them
Turning
Pages
Awake
Lucky
Keep
Night
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
People
Try
Happy Life
Live
Final
Kids
Out
Married
Dream
Get
American
Get Married
Scratch
American Dream
Where
Suburbs
Themselves
I'm not very happy idle.
Harlan Coben
Happy
Idle
Very
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
Time
Family
You
Happy
Writing
Nothing
Enough
Enough Time
Everything
Spending
Extreme
Out
Point
Well
Balanced
Friends
Get
Work Out
Should
Connecting
I try to stress to my children that buying something never leads to true happiness.
Harlan Coben
Happiness
True Happiness
Try
Stress
Something
Never
True
Leads
Children
Buying
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
Unhappy
Part
Know
Also
Mess
Makes
Still
Condition
End
Up
Irony
Human
In The End
Human Condition
Us
Why
Need
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