Harlan Coben – Best Quotes

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.

Sad

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

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.

Romantic

The state of New Jersey is really two places – terrible cities and wonderful suburbs. I live in the suburbs the final battleground of the American dream where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves. It's very romantic in that way but a bit naive. I like to play with that in my work.

Harlan Coben

The state of New Jersey is really two places – terrible cities and wonderful suburbs. I live in the suburbs the final battleground of the American dream where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves. It's very romantic in that way but a bit naive. I like to play with that in my work.

Money

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

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.

Hope

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

Harlan Coben

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

Hope

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

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.

Home

I can write pretty much anywhere if you give me time and some quiet. The home is not usually the best place because I have four children. It's usually pandemonium around here!

Harlan Coben

I can write pretty much anywhere if you give me time and some quiet. The home is not usually the best place because I have four children. It's usually pandemonium around here!

Happiness

I try to stress to my children that buying something never leads to true happiness.

Harlan Coben

I try to stress to my children that buying something never leads to true happiness.

Forgiveness

'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness and the past and the present – who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills or it won't work.

Harlan Coben

'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness and the past and the present – who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills or it won't work.

Hot Quotes

My first love is art and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.

In my world history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought who won them and who lost them – unless there is a painting a play a song or a poem that speaks of the event.

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.

Wushu is a move in Chinese a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.

The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new.

Any work that aspires however humbly to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

When thou art at Rome do as they do at Rome.

Rock isn't art it's the way ordinary people talk.

Tell me thy company and I'll tell thee what thou art.

Book-jacket design may become a lost art like album-cover design without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.

Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.

Author: Harlan Coben

Make no mistake adolescence is a war. No one gets out unscathed.

Tragedy is a hell of a teacher. It's much too strict but it's a hell of a teacher.

I'm not a big sports fan.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

I can write pretty much anywhere if you give me time and some quiet. The home is not usually the best place because I have four children. It's usually pandemonium around here!

I try to stress to my children that buying something never leads to true happiness.

'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness and the past and the present – who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills or it won't work.