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The real name for 'science' is magic.
— Harlan Ellison
I always think the insecurity is going to go away, but it's always there. Only bad writers think they're good.
— Harlan Coben
A writer who writes more than he reads is an amateur.
— Harlan Ellison
Obsession does not seek out problems and correct them; it manufactures them out of nothing, feeds them, makes them stronger.
— Harlan Coben
This was life though, wasn't it? Death made you crave life. The world is nothing but a bunch of thin lines separating what we think are extremes.
— 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
Sometimes the loudest cries for help are silent.
— Harlan Coben
Sure, okay, enjoy World Book Day but celebrating reading one day a year is like "getting some" only on Valentine's Day.
— Harlan Coben
I'm nothing. Nothing at all without writing. Without truth, my truth, the only truth I know, it's all a gambol in the pasture without rhythm or sense.
— Harlan Ellison
Spend money to make money.
— Harlan Coben
The [tenth] amendment states but a truism that all is retained which has not been surrendered.
— Harlan F. Stone
We talked across each other, our conversation at right angles, only meeting in the intersections of silence at story's end.
— Harlan Ellison
Everyone is entitled to an *informed* opinion.
— Harlan Ellison
DIscuss "narking" as a character flaw.
— Harlan Ellison
Ten-A-Fly took off his sunglasses as if they'd angered him. His scowl aimed for intimidation but seemed more in the neighborhood of constipation. "So
— Harlan Coben
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
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
Guys who always shined their shoes were usually self-involved asswipes who figure superficiality trumps substance.
— Harlan Coben
A Spoon swoon, if you will.
— Harlan Coben
Words, especially those of a constitution, are not to be read with such stultifying narrowness.
— Harlan F. Stone
The taxing power of the Federal Government, my dear; the taxing power is sufficient for everything you want and need.
— Harlan F. Stone
There in the midst of the Amazon Jungle, Simon Haskell has cobbled up for himself a replica of an Art Deco salon.
— Harlan Ellison
A writer without a reader doesn't exist.
— Harlan Coben
People don't die from the old diseases any more. They die from new ones, but that's Progress, isn't it? Isn't it?
— Harlan Ellison
I love thriller writers. My favourites are Harlan Coban, Lee Child, Ian Rankin, Kathy Reichs and Ed McBain.
— Maeve Binchy
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
Man is by definition the first and primary weed under whose influence all other weeds have evolved.
— Jack Harlan
Every kid, Megan thought, is a frustrated lawyer, finding loopholes, demanding impossible levels of proof, attacking even the most minute of minutia.
— 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
That's the problem with falling in love. It makes you start talking like a bad country song
— Harlan Coben
I'd never had money growing up, and it's never been that important to me, except maybe to take our kids on a nice vacation or something like that.
— Harlan Coben
She looks really happy."
"Everyone looks happy on Facebook."
"I know, right? What's up with that? — Harlan Coben
"Everyone looks happy on Facebook."
"I know, right? What's up with that? — Harlan Coben
You have heart disease, people understand. When the brain gets sick, well, it's almost impossible to comprehend.
— Harlan Coben
I usually say I write for the smartest, cleverest, wittiest audience I know, and that's me.
— Harlan Ellison
Muse usually gestured like an amphetamine-fueled Sicilian who's nearly gotten clipped by a speeding car.
— Harlan Coben
When we stepped out of the car, I heard the ghosts. Lots of them here, too many, swirling and battling for my attention. My father's won out.
— Harlan Coben
If you let the image of the messenger get in the way of whatever message there may be, however large or small, that's your problem, not his.
— Harlan Ellison
Well now everything dies, baby that's a fact. But maybe everything that dies, someday comes back. - Bruce Springsteen, Atlantic City
— Harlan Coben
Way to nail Cozone. Her cell phone buzzed as
— Harlan Coben
I'm not very happy idle. There's always this voice in my head that says, 'I should be writing.'
— Harlan Coben
[O]ne man's vulgarity is another's lyric.
— John Marshall Harlan
That's what a good crime novelist - any good novelist - should do with you: play with your perceptions while showing you everything in plain sight.
— 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
Hope can be the most wonderful thing in the world or it can crush your heart like an eggshell.
— Harlan Coben
But see, feminism isn't about helping a fellow sister. It's about an equal playing field. It's about giving women choices, not guarantees." Tia
— Harlan Coben
When you're a writer, you have to have the passion and the skill and the craft. It's not just enough to have the passion. You've gotta have all three.
— Harlan Ellison
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
We had reached the moment of final nightness.
— Harlan Ellison
I see all. I hear all. I know all. And I spend a great deal of time in the bathroom.
— Harlan Ellison
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
Myron was playing Mr. Bureaucrat to the hilt; nothing made a person feel more impotent. There is no darker pit than the blank stare of a bureaucrat.
— Harlan Coben
I don't care about other kids. Only mine.
— Harlan Coben
Prison had a way of draining people of their hope and humanity. But Harlan didn't have to worry about that because he'd gone in empty.
— Bernice L. McFadden
You're a writer. And that's something better than being a millionaire. Because it's something holy.
— Harlan Ellison
The machine masturbated and we had to take it or die.
— Harlan Ellison
To say more is to say less.
— Harlan Ellison
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
Writing a novel is like going a great distance to take a small shit.
— Harlan Ellison
I am not one of these people who instantly takes umbrage when he's corrected or - I love being corrected.
— Harlan Ellison
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
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
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
He checked his watch. "One more drink," Win said. "And then I will go in the other room because - oh, you'll love this - Mee so horny." I
— Harlan Coben
We always seem to be on the eve of destruction. And we always seem to get through it.
— Harlan Coben
Of all liars, the smoothest and most convincing is memory
— Harlan Ellison
Any writer who pretends to a disaffection for recognition, I think they're being duplicitous.
— Harlan Ellison
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
You can only be strong for so long.
— 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
One man's vulgarity is another man's lyric.
— John Marshall Harlan II
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
You must never be afraid to go there.
— Harlan Ellison