#life

Let me back up a little and tell you why I prefer writing to real life: You can rewrite. A novel, for example, can be cleaned up, altered, trimmed, improved. Life, on the other hand, is one big messy rough draft. ↗

— Harlan Coben

#back #back up #big #cleaned #draft

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. ↗

— Harlan Coben

#crushing #dad #entirely #ever #happened

More than once, I've wished my real life had a delete key. ↗

— Harlan Coben

#had #i #key #life #more

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. ↗

— Harlan Coben

#american #big #book #conspiracy #family

It is very distressing that anyone would look at these matters from a political viewpoint. Core beliefs about when life begins and ends are far too important for any such calculations. ↗

— Mac Thornberry

#any #anyone #begins #beliefs #calculations

The Magnificent Seven was really kind of a miraculous event that took place in my life. ↗

— James Coburn

#kind #life #magnificent #miraculous #my life

I understand about this idea of terror and what it means to Americans and this idea that we can't just walk around free like we did; life has changed. ↗

— Johnnie Cochran

#around #changed #did #free #i

Tragedy in life normally comes with betrayal and compromise, and trading on your integrity and not having dignity in life. That's really where failure comes. ↗

— Tom Cochrane

#comes #compromise #dignity #failure #having

If we had this back, and in full measure; if society were infused by it, through and through, and men lived its life, and in its life, philosophy would take care of itself and the nature of our institutions would not matter. ↗

— Ralph A. Cram

#care #full #had #infused #institutions

In some ways, I always thought you're better off behaving like a rock star when you're a normal person. Because if you do it as a rock star, you'll end up in the papers and your life will be made a misery. ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

#because #behaving #better #better off #end