Top 25 Harlan Coben Writing Quotes
#1. Our freedom of speech is freedom or death,
We got to fight the powers that be!
Chuck D
#2. Outlining is not writing. Coming up with ideas is not writing. Researching is not writing. Creating characters is not writing. Only writing is writing.
Harlan Coben
#3. 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 cleaned up, altered, trimmed, improved. Life, on the other hand, is one big messy rough draft.
Harlan Coben
#4. Don't try so hard to be the penetrating observer. Writing is, after all, a makeshift thing.
Anonymous
#5. You cannot underestimate the value of luck in success in life. And I've really learned to appreciate that.
Azim Premji
#6. Frankly I'm fairly boring or fairly busy. Between writing and family, I have little time for anything else.
Harlan Coben
#7. I think that the American people should rest assured and be assured that every federal agency that has a role to play in this terrorism is working overtime now, taking every necessary action to protect our great citizens.
Hugh Shelton
#8. Hunt's wife, after all, had died in questionable circumstances,
Benjamin Black
#9. Writing isn't about the process. It is about creating. The joy comes not from the process but from the creation.
Harlan Coben
#10. Kate Atkinson is an absolute must-read. I love everything she writes.
Harlan Coben
#11. 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
#12. The actual writing time is a lot shorter than the thinking time. I don't do too many notes. I keep it mostly in my head. I usually start writing a new book around January, and it's due October 1.
Harlan Coben
#13. 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.
Harlan Coben
#14. For the fiction writer himself the whole story is the meaning, because it is an experience, not an abstraction.
Flannery O'Connor
#16. Writing is one of the few activities where quantity will inevitably make quality. The more you write, the better you're going to get at it.
Harlan Coben
#17. I'm not very happy idle. There's always this voice in my head that says, 'I should be writing.'
Harlan Coben
#18. It's a little weird that they keep walking around sniffing things. Think I'll do that eventually?"
"I have no idea. At least they aren't chewing on the furniture.
Nichole Chase
#19. I bite the skin on the side of my fingernails.
Sienna Miller
#20. I'm scared to death of you, but for a completely different reason.
Alexandra Bracken
#21. The one thing I never questioned about my mother was whether she loved me.
Lorna Luft
#22. Not everyone can look past an insult and continue to work with the person who slights them
Jean Johnson
#23. I actually fall for guys when they're a bit all over me!
Mollie King
#24. We ask our brain to stop worrying, stop obsessing, stop dreaming the same scary dreams again and again. But our brain rarely takes requests.
Dan Poblocki
#25. Writing a novel in general is like trying to reach a mountain top you'll never quite reach - so you try again and maybe get a little closer.
Harlan Coben
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