Quote by Harlan Coben
No characters in Stay Close, including the leads, are black and wh

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

Other quotes by Harlan Coben

I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. Im 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

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Fear
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Hope can be the most wonderful thing in the world or it can crush your heart like an eggshell. – Harlan Coben

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Hope
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If Im not writing well, Im not happy. If Im not spending enough time with my family, Im not happy. If Im not connecting to friends or if I dont work out enough… You get the point. Everything has to be balanced. Nothing should be an extreme. – Harlan Coben

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Family
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If merely feeling good could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience. – William James

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Experience

Bottom up thinkers try to start from experience and move from experience to understanding. They dont start with certain general principles they think beforehand are likely to be true they just hope to find out what reality is like. – John Polkinghorne

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Experience

Life is full of change and uncertainty. We know this. We experience it on a daily basis. – Carre Otis

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Experience

War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it. – Desiderius Erasmus

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Experience

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Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment. – Jean Baudrillard

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Dreams

I know what youre going to say! They are men, and men should be free. A free man is dangerous to himself and everyone else. Freedom should be left to those who can put it to good use. – Dave Sim

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Freedom

If she speaks, it will only be a pleasant word or two; should she have anything important to say, the moment will be after tea, not before it; this she knows by instinct. – George Gissing, The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft, 1903 (of the housekeeper b

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Pornography is supposed to arouse sexual desires. If pornography is a crime, when will they arrest makers of perfume? – Richard Fleischer

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Sex