Harlan Coben
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first heard Jan 2026
last heard 2 Jul
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And hopefully that will end up somewhere, maybe in a book, something that will happen to me.
But I need to be thinking always with the writer's mind frame, always that sort of thing of what can I use and how can I turn things around to turn it into story.
Well, first of all, I disagree it's 2% because sometimes the problem is you have to make sure you're also working smart.
Like if you have a really bad idea, don't stick with it because people tell you you have to keep working at it.
So work smarter than that.
Don't be just 99% perspiration.
It is the work, but you have to make sure that that 1% or that 2% is really powerful stuff.
And if it's not, change that 1% or 2% until you have something.
It takes me a while before I have an idea
that I know I'm going to now live with for the nine months or whatever else I'm writing this novel.
An idea is not a book.
There's a lot of times what I think is a great idea, but it's throwing out seeds on arid land.
Something hopefully will hold and start to grow.
Once it starts to grow, now you're nurturing it and working on it.
But don't work on a seed that's not going to grow.
My 10th novel.
Your 10th novel?
My 10th novel was called Tell No One.
That was my first New York Times bestseller.
I had a breakout moment.
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