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Harlan Coben

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Cinta

When I was seventeen, I worked as a counsellor at a co-ed sleep-away camp for eight weeks. I loved it but it could be harrowing - it was far too much responsibility for someone my age.

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Keluarga

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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Motivasi

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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Pendidikan

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.

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Keluarga

Frankly I'm fairly boring or fairly busy. Between writing and family, I have little time for anything else.

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Kebahagiaan

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.

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Cinta

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.

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Keberanian

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.

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Pendidikan

'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.

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Kebahagiaan

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

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Keluarga

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!

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Cinta

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

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Cinta

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.

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Sukses

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.

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Kebahagiaan

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.

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Kehidupan

I'm not a big sports fan.

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Cinta

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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Pendidikan

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

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Kegagalan

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

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