Top 100 Quotes About Harlan
#1. There is Harlan Ellison the human being, who takes a crap a couple of times a day, and who farts, and who eats chicken croquettes, if I can find them. And then there is the writer, this writer-person, who is a much finer person than I. Much more orderly, much more meaningful. Worthier, than I [am].
Harlan Ellison
#2. No one inspired me to write, but writer Harlan Ellison terrified me into getting published.
Dan Simmons
#3. If you don't care about science enough to be interested in it on its own, you shouldn't try to write hard science fiction. You can write like Ray Bradbury and Harlan Ellison as much as you want.
Frederik Pohl
#4. Herschel Grynszpan's life was enigmatic, elusive and tragic. The traces he left on the historical record are just sufficient to tantalize and baffle historians. Harlan Greene has woven from these threads a riveting novel, erotic, haunting, and profoundly moving.
Janette Turner Hospital
#5. In Harlan, Kentucky, we told stories the way some people play music ... In the mountains, storytelling is truly an art form, and as much recreation as communication.
Maxine Cheshire
#6. I think that when people hear the president [George W. Bush] speak, frankly, they think he's really stupid. But what people don't realize is that there's a genius behind that stupidity, and that genius is Harlan McCraney.
Arianna Huffington
#7. Get in, get out, and nobody gets hurt, as Uncle Harlan always said, something he picked up in Vietnam.
Christopher Moore
#8. If you like Harlan Coben, you'll love Linwood Barclay.
Peter Robinson
#9. [To the editor of the Harlan, Kentucky, Daily Enterprise, as a kindergartener:] I know everything that goes on in this town, and if you give me a job so will you.
Maxine Cheshire
#10. You, Aaron, are a revolving SOB.
Doesn't she mean revolting? Harlan leaned in to whisper.
Afraid not, Travis said. You'll see.
You're a son-of-a-bitch no matter which way you turn.
Sara Bell
#11. If Bruce Springsteen, Harlan Howard, or Tom Waits can tell a character's whole story in four minutes, maybe you don't need as many words as you think to make an impact.
Tim Leffel
#12. Michael Connelly's Series Order Diana Gabaldon's Series Order Patricia Cornwell's Series Order Fern Michael's Series Order Robert Ludlum's Series Order Harlan Coben's Series Order Terry Pratchett's Series Order J.A. Jance's Series Order Tom Clancy's
A.J. Stone
#13. Whenever I start thinking about death, it always cheers me up to think about my funeral and my tombstone (which, by the way, will say "Here lies Harlan Sturr. Please don't pee on him.")
Adam Selzer
#14. And [Asimov]'ll sign anything, hardbacks, softbacks, other people's books, scraps of paper. Inevitably someone handed him a blank check on the occasion when I was there, and he signed that without as much as a waver to his smile - except that he signed: 'Harlan Ellison.
Isaac Asimov
#15. 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
#16. when we lose our commitment to accuracy, honesty, and justice, we lose our ability to make a difference, because we also lose our vision of what is possible. Harlan
Harlan Ellison
#17. I love thriller writers. My favourites are Harlan Coban, Lee Child, Ian Rankin, Kathy Reichs and Ed McBain.
Maeve Binchy
#18. I don't believe in "writers block." Lower your standards and keep writing. You can always go back later and make it better. Unless your name is Harlan Ellison, in which case your sentences come out perfectly parsed each time.
Marvin J. Wolf
#19. Mental illnesses are so strange. A physical problem we can understand. But when the mind works irrationally, well, by its very definition, the rational mind cannot truly relate.
Harlan Coben
#20. The grease from the awful lunch buffet took to the air, becoming more a skin coating than a smell.
Harlan Coben
#21. Being a parent is not for the faint of heart. I may joke about knowing fear, but the fact is, the first time I ever knew real fear was the day Charlotte, my first child, was born. Suddenly there is someone in the world you care about more than anything.
Harlan Coben
#22. The phone rang. Joan Rochester leaped to her feet, but Dominick signaled her to sit with a wave of his hand. He wiped his face as though it were a windshield and rose from his seat. Dominick was a thick man. Not fat. Thick. Thick neck, thick shoulders, thick chest, thick arms and thighs. The
Harlan Coben
#23. They're politicians,' Win said. 'They'd lie and evade if you asked them what they had for breakfast.
Harlan Coben
#24. Don't start an argument with somebody who has a microphone when you don't. They'll make you look like chopped liver.
Harlan Ellison
#25. Obsession does not seek out problems and correct them; it manufactures them out of nothing, feeds them, makes them stronger.
Harlan Coben
#26. Mrs. Friedman lived in a happy snow globe of AP History.
Harlan Coben
#27. We all play God every day. When a woman buys a new pair of expensive shoes, she could have spent that same money feeding someone who was starving. In a sense, those shoes mean more to her than a life. We all kill to make our lives more comfortable. We don't put it in those terms. But we do.
Harlan Coben
#28. chances. I want to make sure that Dan Mercer never hurts anyone ever again." "By killing
Harlan Coben
#29. Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality.
Harlan Stone
#31. The trick is not becoming a writer. The trick is staying a writer.
Harlan Ellison
#32. Some men carry torches for old loves, and then some guys - not many, but some - get completely consumed by the torch's flames. It makes them nothing but long-term trouble for the follow-ups.
Harlan Coben
#33. The receptionist at Horne, Buckman and Pierce, a classic battle-ax who was comfortably past her prime, eyed Loren as if she'd recognized her from a sex offender poster. Full frown in place, the battle-ax told her to sit. Randal
Harlan Coben
#34. Dreams never die. Sometimes you think they are dead, but they are just hibernating lie some old bear. And, if the dream has been hibernating for a long time, that bear is going to wake up grumpy and hungry
Harlan Coben
#35. I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month.
Harlan Miller
#36. The preparation for building a series of thrillers based on a single character is kind of like the preparation for becoming a parent: The best part is the idea - wink, wink.
Harlan Coben
#37. She thinks we were all killed when they made the Great Sweep, but I escaped in the mud.
Harlan Ellison
#38. This is the price you pay for having a great father. You get the wonder, the joy, the tender moments - and you get the tears at the end, too.
Harlan Coben
#39. I am not one of these people who instantly takes umbrage when he's corrected or - I love being corrected.
Harlan Ellison
#40. They change scapegoats at the networks more regularly than some people change socks.
Harlan Ellison
#41. We don't pray in foxholes because we are ready to meet our Maker. We pray because we don't want to.
Harlan Coben
#42. Tia is too overprotective. You know that." Mike put down his cell phone. "Adam quit the hockey team." Mo made a face as if Mike had suggested that his son had gotten into devil worship or bestiality. "Whoa." Mike
Harlan Coben
#43. Some people are drawn to trouble. Some people, no matter how easy the path they are given on the walk of life, will find a way to mess it all up.
Harlan Coben
#44. At core, no matter how kindly may be your thoughts of the human race, there are times when all you want to do is crumple it up and either set fire to it, or use it to pad the floor of a bird cage.
Big bird cage.
Really big bird.
Harlan Ellison
#45. Death sucks. Death sucks, mostly because it forces those who stay behind to survive. Death isn't merciful enough to take you too. Instead, death constantly jams down your throat the awful lesson that life does indeed go on, no matter what.
Harlan Coben
#46. Hope is cruel. Hope reminds me of what almost was. Hope makes the physical ache return.
Harlan Coben
#47. Manhattan scene - you are surrounded and yet you find solace; you find isolation in the tornado of people.
Harlan Coben
#48. The rule of thumb in student files seemed to be, If you have nothing negative to say, don't say anything at all.
Harlan Coben
#49. But, alas, that was crap. She'd been had by a con man - simple as that. His modesty had been a way to cover up his true self. Call it instinct or women's intuition or going with your gut - whenever Wendy had done that, she had been wrong. "I
Harlan Coben
#50. 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
#51. 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. I want to stir the pulse, yes, but also to stir the heart. I hope 'The Woods' does that.
Harlan Coben
#52. So now what? Kick down the door . . . and then what? Find an old lady in a weird white dress and demand she explain her whack-a-doodle rants? Maybe she had gone upstairs. Maybe Bat Lady was now getting ready for her loony day, changing out of her white dress, heading to the shower . . . Ugh.
Harlan Coben
#53. Right now, even though he'd been dead for years, she wanted to collapse in her father's big arms and hear him tell her that everything would be all right. Do we ever outgrow that need?
Harlan Coben
#54. By the time Myron was forced to return, their clients were scattering into the night like kitchen help during an immigration bust.
Harlan Coben
#55. Posing the question: does the god of love use underarm deodorant, vaginal spray and fluoride toothpaste?
Harlan Ellison
#56. 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
#57. Man is by definition the first and primary weed under whose influence all other weeds have evolved.
Jack Harlan
#58. I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously; perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.
Harlan Coben
#59. Why do humans never really learn the lessons we are supposed to? What is in our makeup, in fact, that draws us to that which should sicken us?
Harlan Coben
#60. It be nicer to think your parents, who worked hard, gave you those presents instead of some creepy stranger?
Harlan Coben
#61. After three rings the machine picked up. Win's annoyingly superior accent said, "Hang up without leaving a message and die." Beep. Myron shook his head, smiled, and, as always, left a message. He
Harlan Coben
#63. An old Croatian proverb Adam had learned in college applied here: The hunchback sees the hump of others - never his own.
Harlan Coben
#64. At one time, this might have been a nice area, but now the neighborhood looked like a man who'd lost his job and stopped bathing.
Harlan Coben
#65. The ugliest truth, in the end, was still better than the prettiest of lies.
Harlan Coben
#66. Get a day job, make your money from that, and write to please yourself.
Harlan Ellison
#67. He was furious. He wouldn't let me bury them. It didn't matter. There was no way to dig up the deckplates. He dried up the snow. He brought the night. He roared and sent locusts. It didn't do a thing; they stayed dead. I'd had him.
Harlan Ellison
#68. 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
#69. The two Crabfest eaters pulled out bills one at a time. Then they each opened their change purse as though it were a rusted chastity belt. Heidi
Harlan Coben
#70. And I love the twist. I love to fool you once, I love to fool you twice, and on the very last page, quite often - very last paragraph sometimes - I like to just play with your perception one more time in a way that makes everything that came before just a little bit different.
Harlan Coben
#71. As a soldier, you don't stand at attention because it looks nice. You stand at attention because, on some level, it either gives you strength or, just as important, makes you appear stronger to both your comrades and enemies.
Harlan Coben
#72. 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
#73. Repent, Harlequin," said the Ticktock Man. "Get stuffed," the Harlequin replied.
Harlan Ellison
#74. This was a place where tattoos outnumbered teeth.
Harlan Coben
#75. Science fiction used to be a dangerous literature. Now, it is a very commercial genre, and whatever dangers might still lurk within seem to have been safely sanitized for the marketplace. The real crime is that the lobotomy has been self performed. I
Harlan Ellison
#77. So basically, that entire theory is blown to hell."
Not basically," Win corrected. "Entirely.
Harlan Coben
#78. 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
#79. Sure, okay, enjoy World Book Day but celebrating reading one day a year is like "getting some" only on Valentine's Day.
Harlan Coben
#80. I'm 48 years old, not a kid anymore by any definition, but here is a universal truth that every adult at some point will realize: We are all always 17 years old, waiting for our lives to begin.
Harlan Coben
#81. The law regards man as man, and takes no account of his surroundings or of his color when his civil rights as guaranteed by the supreme law of the land are involved.
John Marshall Harlan
#82. 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
#83. The humpback never sees the hump on his own back.
Harlan Coben
#84. 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
#85. Another weird thing about funerals: Wear black but kill something as colorful as flowers to decorate.
Harlan Coben
#86. Hope can be the most wonderful thing in the world or it can crush your heart like an eggshell.
Harlan Coben
#87. Jared was her son and the "co-general manager" of the Yankees - co meaning shares the title with someone who knows what he's doing because he got the job through nepotism.
Harlan Coben
#88. Those with visible responsibility for leadership are nearly always too visible to take responsibility for change ...
Harlan Cleveland
#89. More than once, I've wished my real life had a delete key.
Harlan Coben
#90. The interests of the deaf child and his parents may best be served by accepting that he is a deaf person, with an elaborate cultural and linguistic heritage that can enrich his parent's life as it will his own.
Harlan Lane
#92. An interactive debugger is an outstanding example of what is not needed - it encourages trial-and-error hacking rather than systematic design, and also hides marginal people barely qualified for precision programming.
Harlan Mills
#93. Logan's overall score was a six-point-seven. Jimmy only has a score of six-point-four. Even with today's new math, six-point-seven is greater than six-point-four. I can show you with a graph if that would help.
Harlan Coben
#94. 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
#95. It's just that . . . when you have kids, it just changes things." "Do me a favor, Yates. Please don't give me that having-children-alters-you spiel. I listen to that crap enough from my painfully few friends.
Harlan Coben
#96. Maybe the answer isn't in another job," Wendy said. "Maybe the answer is in finding new ways to define manhood.
Harlan Coben
#97. I usually start with a title or maybe a little rhyme or phrase.
Harlan Howard
#98. No characters in 'Stay Close,' including the leads, are black and white. I want them to be grey. I think that makes for a much more interesting reading experience, something that will stay with you a little bit longer.
Harlan Coben
#99. The sun shone through the green of the trees. The sky was a blue only a deity could paint. Beauty always found refuge in the ugly. Truth be told, beauty couldn't really exist without the ugly. How can there be light if there is no dark? Gerard
Harlan Coben
#100. We all want to convince ourselves that it is about hard work and education and perseverance, but the truth is, life is much more about the fickle and the random. We don't want to admit it, but we are controlled by luck, by timing, by fate.
Harlan Coben
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