Harlan Coben
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1,008 appearances
3 recordings
3 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 2 Jul
Harlan Coben’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I'm sorry, the first one was from Elmore Leonard.
E.L.
Doctorow says that writing is like driving at night in the fog with just your headlights on.
You can only see a little bit ahead of you, but you can make the whole journey that way.
The only thing I add is I know where that journey is going to end.
Do you do, some writers do, a great deal of research?
I do none.
I do as little as possible.
Every other writer you will talk to will normally say they do a lot of research.
And I will defend that position for those who want to be writers out there.
The problem with research is that it's more fun than writing.
And you will do anything not to write.
We both know this, Charles.
You, staring at that blank page, you will do anything not to write.
There are days I'm sitting there going, I'm going to write, but first let me put aluminum siding on my house.
Like anything to avoid that horrible moment we're alone.
So I'll do research.
Most writers do research as an excuse not to write.
And then you get caught up in the research and you're loving the research and the research is so much fun and you're forgetting to write.
So I would tell people, you know, look, if you're writing a book about 18th century Afghanistan, yes, of course.
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