Harlan Coben Quotes

I love being in touch with my readers and fellow writers! It's just amazing to have such access to people.

I think of the audience the way I would think of another person: You meet someone, then you take it from there; you see what's interesting to both of you.

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.

It doesn't matter as long as there's interaction between me and the audience. That's why they come.

Music is a dialogue.

If you don't get feedback from your performers and your audience, you're going to be working in a vacuum.

Sometimes you're working with somebody, and you can tell they're just waiting to say their line.

Communication is important.

I like meeting and connecting with readers.

I can't imagine working without and audience.

I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss - you can't do it alone.

When I'm doing a one-on-one with somebody, I have to speak in a language that that person can understand, using a vocabulary that they instantly get, and I always have to feel my way around to figure that out. It's a lot of fun, and it's also really challenging - challenging in a different way from performing.

Readers are what it's all about, aren't they? If not, why am I writing?

Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.

I love connecting with readers!

We need to engage rather than educate people.

I loved the idea of touching base with an audience.

Communication is everyone's panacea for everything.

No story lives unless someone wants to listen.

Whom we wish to talk to is as important as what we say.

You ask me a question. I have a blank mind. You ask me a question, and the question is informed, and you're interested, and now my mind starts popping. That's what conversation is. That's what communicating is.

I think there's plenty of folks out there, whether they agree with me or not, they appreciate the fact that you're listening to them. And I think that's how you win.

Words are only as good as the response to those words.

It's through engagement with the world, and not separation from it, that something with meaning gets produced.

I really enjoy connecting with the audience.