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You have to drop all your defenses, only then is intimacy possible. We are all hiding a thousand and on things, not only from others but from ourselves.

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Harlan Coben

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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The ugliest truth, in the end, was still better than the prettiest of lies.

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Only bad writers think they're good.

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

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There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.

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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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