Harlan Coben

No, it did not.

Just because I think maybe because we were so buried in, you know, take this baby.

We got to still drive the kids to school.

I had all that sort of thing.

There's a great Flaubert quote also that I apply to writing where he says, be regular and bourgeois in your real life so you can be violent and original in your work.

Hmm.

And so I was regular and ordinary and bourgeois in my real life.

There was no way around that.

So it wasn't like I could go off, you know, and start hanging out at nightclubs.

I had newborn kids at home.

But it may be a different circumstance.

It could have gone another direction, but it didn't.

But I could see with a lot of other people who have broken out, I warned them, it's going to mess with your head.

I was friends with Dan Brown, as I mentioned.

Dan and I went to the same fraternity, had the same fraternity.

And he sent me Da Vinci Code before it came out.

No one knew what it was, and I read it.

And I gave it one of those endorsements, blurbs on the front cover.

And then I could see, because you can feel these things happen.

I felt it would tell no one, too.