In real life, coincidences happen all the time. In novels, they are leapt upon with fury.
Harlan Coben
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... →
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... →
I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for... →
Life may not always fall into neat chapters, and you may not always get the satisfying ending you're looking for, but sometimes a good... →
Children learn much more from how you act than from what you tell them. There are times this worries me - we parents are rarely the role models we... →
If I don't write, I hate myself. Simple as that. My life is out of balance.
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.
The good news is that even minimal activity can significantly extend life.
Howard Coble
The Magnificent Seven was really kind of a miraculous event that took place in my life.
James Coburn