I like having written.” It’s a really interesting question: Is it the process or the creation that we like? I start, as I get older, to side on the creation part. Dorothy Parker gets the most credit for this quote: “I don’t like writing. What do you love most about creating and writing?įinishing. So that fear … if I didn’t have to do this, that I would have to get a “real” job, has always brought me back to my writing desk. The other part, which is key, is desperation. Part of being a writer is the obvious -having the inspiration and perspiration and doing the work. It just became the only thing I could do. When did you know that this was your path? The exciting part is when the characters come to life for the readers. It’s like playing catch and throwing the ball and nobody’s catching it. A writer without a reader is like a man who claps with one hand. 1 in France, was that that one of your goals?” I thought, “Dude, that is so far past anything I was thinking of.” I am the most immodest person. I was asked by a French interviewer recently, “Your book is No. My life is extraordinarily “normal.” Gustave Flaubert has a quote that is, something to the effect, “Be regular and orderly and normal in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.” That’s what I go by.Īre you surprised by the success of some books heading to Netflix, like The Stranger and Safe? So, how do you balance success and discipline?įor me, I have four kids. We’re an interesting mix, being writers, of being super insecure while at the same time having the hubris to say, “Oh, you are going to read what I am going to write, and why don’t you pay me for the pleasure of it.” I had a conversation recently with Stephen King and he said he still worries about how his book is going to be perceived and has all the same angst we all do. It’s not easy for anybody who is doing it right. I thought, “What if my lead character looked over and saw the vagrant, and it was his daughter who had been missing?” That was the start. One day, I was sitting on a bench in Central Park, and a vagrant is mangling John Lennon’s songs for a dollar. I also wanted write a book on the occult. I wanted to write about the new genealogy and DNA sites that people seem to be fascinated by. The author shares more with Palm Springs Life. Will Simon, the book’s protagonist, be able to maneuver through the shocking and dangerous new world in which he suddenly finds himself? That question keeps readers invested until the very last page of the suspense thriller. Hall at the helm, the author signed a multi-year deal with Netflix to develop and executive produce 14 projects for the streaming service. The first of those projects is Harlan Coben’s T he Stranger starring Richard Armitage, Steven Rea, and Jennifer Saunders.Īs for Run Away, the book chronicles a father searching for his missing daughter. Thanks to the success of Coben’s Netflix Original drama series Harlan Coben’s Safe with Dexter alum Michael C. One burning question: How the author has adjusted from being binge-read to binged-watched? The first 600 people at the event, a mix of discussion and Q&A, will receive a free copy of Run Away. The prolific author of successful suspense thrillers such as The Stranger, Fool Me Once, Don’t Let Go, and Run Away, which was released in March, takes the spotlight at the Rancho Mirage Writers Series on April 10 at the Rancho Mirage Library & Observatory. 1 New York Times best-selling author of 30 novels and 70 million of them are in print? Keep writing.
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