Quotes by Harlan Coben

Harlan Coben

I am, after all, a thriller writer. I routinely delve into the darkest chambers of the human heart. I’ve written about murder, kidnapping, depravity, horror, violence, and disfigurement.

Heart

Horror

Violence

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 I compete with, if you want to use that word, it’s a pretty friendly rivalry. I think we all realise that the boat rises and sinks together.

Friendly

Real

Thinking

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.

Caring

Doe

Sports

I like to go out and write. So I’ll often go to a Starbucks or a local coffee bar, and I’ll sit there and I’ll write. I can write pretty much anywhere.

Bars

Coffee

Writing

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 made of something very flimsy like lime, and if you cross it, it really starts to blur where fair becomes foul and foul becomes fair.

Baseball

Games

Struggle Between Good And Evil

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 I bore you, you’re probably going to pick up a big club and hit me over the head.

Bores You

Fire

Writing

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, which is not easy to do.

People

Thinking

Villain

I once worked as a tour guide in the Costa del Sol of Spain.

Guides

Spain

Tour Guides

I pretty much only wear Lilly Pulitzer ties because my best friend owns the company.

Friendship

My Best Friend

Ties

I remember one time I heard this English professor asking the class what the world’s scariest noise is. Is it a man crying out in pain? A woman’s scream of terror? A gunshot? A baby crying? And the professor shakes his head and says, ‘No, the scariest noise is, you’re all alone in your dark house, you know you’re all alone, you know that there is no chance anyone else is home or within miles—and then, suddenly, from upstairs, you hear the toilet flush.

Baby

Home

Pain

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Absolutes

Ache

Alternatives

Annoying

Answers

Asking For Help

Attention

Baby

Bars

Baseball

Beer

Believe

Bigs

Bits

Black And White

Blame

Blessing

Book

Bores You

Boring

Break

Broken

Bullshit

Busy

Cake

Care

Caring

Certain

Character

Children

Coffee

Coincidence

College

Country

Crazy

Creating

Crime

Crime Fiction

Crush

Cute

Dad

Dancer

Dark

Desperation

Doe

Dollars

Doors

Dream

Dumb

Ease

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Quotes by Harlan Coben

Harlan Coben

I am, after all, a thriller writer. I routinely delve into the darkest chambers of the human heart. I’ve written about murder, kidnapping, depravity, horror, violence, and disfigurement.

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 I compete with, if you want to use that word, it’s a pretty friendly rivalry. I think we all realise that the boat rises and sinks together.

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.

I like to go out and write. So I’ll often go to a Starbucks or a local coffee bar, and I’ll sit there and I’ll write. I can write pretty much anywhere.

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 made of something very flimsy like lime, and if you cross it, it really starts to blur where fair becomes foul and foul becomes fair.

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 I bore you, you’re probably going to pick up a big club and hit me over the head.

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, which is not easy to do.

I once worked as a tour guide in the Costa del Sol of Spain.

I pretty much only wear Lilly Pulitzer ties because my best friend owns the company.

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