A Quote by Harlan Coben

I'm the Jerry Lewis of crime fiction.

Harlan Coben

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Harlan Coben
American - Author
Born: January 4, 1962

We mocked that concept ['movies are better than ever'] by doing a sketch that was about a theater trying to get one customer to come in...and that customer was Jerry Lewis. It generated so much controversy that Dean [Martin] and Jerry [Lewis] had to apologize in a full page ad in Variety.

Norman Lear

The most popular American fiction seems to be about successful people who win, and good crime fiction typically does not explore that world. But honestly, if all crime fiction was quality fiction, it would be taken more seriously.

George Pelecanos

Jerry Lewis has been married twenty times. He gets married on a Tuesday, they find his wife dead in a swimming pool on Thursday. Maybe if you married someone who's old enough to swim next time, Ok Jerry?

Denis Leary

I grew up reading crime fiction mysteries, true crime - a lot of true crime - and it is traditionally a male dominated field from the outside, but from the inside what we know, those of us who read it, is that women buy the most crime fiction, they are by far the biggest readers of true crime, and there's a voracious appetite among women for these stories, and I know I feel it - since I was quite small I wanted to go to those dark places.

Megan Abbott

I was on the road with Jerry Lee Lewis when I was 15 - I can't imagine not doing it. That's what I do.

Leon Russell

What I always say is that we're the illegitimate children of Andy Kaufman and Jerry Lewis.

Kevin McDonald

I grew up on Jerry Lewis and Abbot and Costello, the Marx Brothers.

Drake Bell

I grew up on Don Knotts and Jerry Lewis and all the guys from Second City.

Harland Williams

I just really like the verve and muscle of good crime fiction, the narrative punch of it. The underlying principle of good crime fiction is an insistence on a kind of root democracy. I've always responded to that notion.

Daniel Woodrell

My influences were Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis and Chuck Berry.

Micky Dolenz

I think Jerry Lee is sad. As a musician, he was far more talented than Elvis Presley. Everybody down in Memphis knows that. Elvis became a movie star because he was beautiful. Not that Elvis wasn't talented, but Jerry Lee Lewis was incomprehensibly talented as a musician.

Alec Baldwin

A Madagascar Hissing Roach chasing Jerry Lewis. That would be a really neat treat.

Michael O'Donoghue

I had my serious side - I idolized Bobby Kennedy; he was my role model. But so was Jerry Lewis.

John Ritter

I loved Carl Perkins, Jerry lee Lewis... not only were they personal friends.

Wanda Jackson

A lot of people say Jerry Lee Lewis done wrong, but that has yet to be proven in the eyes of God.

Jerry Lee Lewis

I've read crime fiction all my life. A thing that's bothered me about crime fiction is that it's generally about one or two people, but there's not much about society. I want to get away from that particular pattern: a lead, a supporting role and backdrop characters.

Stieg Larsson

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