"Make no mistake, adolescence is a war. No one gets out unscathed."
-Harlan Coben
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"Losing my parents was the most crushing thing that ever happened to me. I lost my dad when I was 26, and it changed my life entirely.“
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"The readers are the ones who let us live our dreams. I try to write books which are really compelling - that you'd take on vacation and rather than going out, you'd read in your hotel room because you had to find out what happened. Hopefully that's what readers are responding to."
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"Tragedy is a hell of a teacher. It's much too strict, but it's a hell of a teacher."
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"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."
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"I'm not a big sports fan."
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"What I want to do is tell stories about normal people in the American suburbs. I don't write the book where it's a conspiracy reaching the prime minister I don't write the book with the big serial killer who lops off heads. My setting is a very placid pool of suburbia, family life. And within that I can make pretty big splashes."
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