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I always think the insecurity is going to go away, but it's always there. Only bad writers think they're good.
— Harlan Coben
Obsession does not seek out problems and correct them; it manufactures them out of nothing, feeds them, makes them stronger.
— Harlan Coben
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
Always better to be cautious. Things can always be said later, but things can never be unheard. Shane
— Harlan Coben
It be nicer to think your parents, who worked hard, gave you those presents instead of some creepy stranger?
— Harlan Coben
Sometimes the loudest cries for help are silent.
— Harlan Coben
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
Death is so close, always, a breath away, so perhaps it was wise to introduce children to that concept at an early age. Maya
— Harlan Coben
Spend money to make money.
— Harlan Coben
Amazing what humans, even ones as wanton as Frank Ache, crave when left alone - other humans.
— Harlan Coben
Hope she's not getting Gloria." "Why?" "She kinda looks like a white version of me," Jake said. "Only with a heavier beard.
— Harlan Coben
Megan looked into Agnes's frightened face. Agnes had been so sharp just a few years back - funny and cutting and wonderfully ribald.
— Harlan Coben
What we so admire and call "single minded dedication" was really "obsessive self-involvement". What in that exactly is admirable?
— Harlan Coben
Guys who always shined their shoes were usually self-involved asswipes who figure superficiality trumps substance.
— Harlan Coben
Acceptance of the inevitable, a sign of a wise man.
— Harlan Coben
A Spoon swoon, if you will.
— Harlan Coben
The first sip of beer on a hot day is like that first finger-dip when you open a new jar of peanut butter.
— Harlan Coben
Writing isn't about the process. It is about creating. The joy comes not from the process but from the creation.
— Harlan Coben
The humpback never sees the hump on his own back.
— Harlan Coben
Dreams are fragile. Dreams don't last.
— Harlan Coben
Frankly I'm fairly boring or fairly busy. Between writing and family, I have little time for anything else.
— Harlan Coben
Way to nail Cozone. Her cell phone buzzed as
— Harlan Coben
With choice comes guilt. No escaping it.
— Harlan Coben
Painful memories didn't just ease back in-they shoved the door open hard, all of them and all at once
— Harlan Coben
By the time Myron was forced to return, their clients were scattering into the night like kitchen help during an immigration bust.
— Harlan Coben
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.
— Harlan Coben
The Newark train station is about as romantic as a pile of hippo dung with head lice.
— Harlan Coben
So basically your plan is to flail about helplessly.
— Harlan Coben
I don't remember how big the balloons were. I was a kid then. Everything looks bigger when you're a kid.
— Harlan Coben
Parenting. It ain't for sissies.
— Harlan Coben
I found something in Mercer's room," Walker said in a voice as gray as a tombstone. "I think it belongs to Haley McWaid.
— Harlan Coben
An awkward impasse. No one knew exactly how to say good-bye. A wave? A handshake? A kiss?
— Harlan Coben
I'm not very happy idle. There's always this voice in my head that says, 'I should be writing.'
— Harlan Coben
You stay in the surreal world of so-called higher learning. You are comfortable there. You have very little reason to leave it.
— Harlan Coben
He called us." "Dominick Rochester?" "Yes." "When?" "Last night. He said he met with you." Met, Myron thought. Nice euphemism.
— Harlan Coben
Wow." "You've got quite the vocabulary." "Never use a big word when a small one will suffice." "I could make a crack here, but I won't.
— Harlan Coben
Kids don't do what their parents say-they do what they see their parents do. So who was to blame here?
— Harlan Coben
Matt rested his head against the bus window, the vibration working like a strange massage.
— Harlan Coben
It's been a long day." "It's only nine in the morning." Myron said, "For what breeds time but two hands on a clock?
— Harlan Coben
Kids don't come with instructions. We all mess up. Raising a child is pure impromptu.
— Harlan Coben
Looked me straight in the eye and spoke an indisputable truth: You don't know my life.
— Harlan Coben
I don't care about other kids. Only mine.
— Harlan Coben
Death teaches you that. You would give anything, forgive anything, for just one more second. . . .
— Harlan Coben
When you hit thirty-five or forty, you know on one level that you are no longer the physical specimen you once were.
— Harlan Coben
Liz Gorman, a fiery redhead, had been one of the founding members of the Raven Brigade.
— Harlan Coben
Only bad writers think they're good.
— Harlan Coben
I once worked as a tour guide in the Costa del Sol of Spain.
— Harlan Coben
There is silence, and then there is rural silence, silence you could feel and reach out and touch, silence with texture and distance.
— Harlan Coben
Memories, you see, hurt. The good ones most of all.
— Harlan Coben
Years fly by, but the heart stays in the same place.
— Harlan Coben
Those who had easy answers, be they on the right or the left, were always wrong. The world is complex. It is never one-size-fits-all.
— Harlan Coben
You can't have an up without a down, a left without a right - and you can't have good times without expecting bad.
— Harlan Coben
tilted her head, like a dog hearing a strange sound. "Does pain happen if you don't remember it?" Kat
— Harlan Coben
Secrets...were cancers. Secrets festered. Secrets ate away at your innards, leaving behind nothing but a flimsy husk.
— Harlan Coben
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.
— Harlan Coben
You want this so badly - this second chance, this chance at real redemption - that you can't see the truth." "What
— Harlan Coben
Thomas had gotten his learner's permit a week ago - the parental equivalent of a stress test without using an actual EKG machine.
— Harlan Coben
He looked maybe half an egg sandwich away from a coronary.
— Harlan Coben
We always seem to be on the eve of destruction. And we always seem to get through it.
— Harlan Coben
A writer without a reader doesn't exist.
— Harlan Coben
Some people are conduits for misery.
— Harlan Coben
On the outside, he's all cold and detached," she said. "But underneath that - way down deep inside - he's all cold and detached.
— Harlan Coben
Esperanza's side had so many colors, Crayola sent a scout.
— Harlan Coben
I said everyone looks happy. That was kinda my point. If you judge the world by Facebook, you wonder why so many people take Prozac.
— Harlan Coben
You can only be strong for so long.
— Harlan Coben
Whatever else a father is in this life - cop, fireman, Indian chief - he provides for his family. He
— Harlan Coben
A voice flat enough to fit under a door crack.
— Harlan Coben
Hope can be the most wonderful thing in the world or it can crush your heart like an eggshell.
— Harlan Coben
Mrs. Friedman lived in a happy snow globe of AP History.
— Harlan Coben
Desperation can toy with you and if you give desperation any wiggle room, it will find alternative answers
— Harlan Coben
In the movies, killers are omnipotent.
— Harlan Coben