Gayle Forman Quotes

Never ignore a coincidence. Unless you're busy, in which case, always ignore a coincidence.

Play is experimenting with chance.

I'm not a believer in luck, but I do believe you need it.

It always happened like this: he would look and look for the keys to Satan’s Hearse and then finally he’d just give up and say, “Fine. I’ll take the fugging bus,” and on his way out the door, he’d see the keys. Keys show up when you reconcile yourself to the bus; Katherines appear when you start to disbelieve the world contains another Katherine; and, sure enough, the Eureka moment arrived just as he began to accept it would never come.

...maximize the serendipity around you.

Talk to people no one else is talking to. Who would have thought that giving a speech at a funeral at age 12 would introduce me to a man who would introduce me to my first business contact who would introduce me to several other important people in my life. That's luck. That's randomness.

Expose yourself to as much randomness as possible.

All good ideas arrive by chance.

Coincidence is logical.

At one level, SXSW exemplifies serendipity, because whenever I come, I get these unexpected meetings with people I never knew existed, and you couldn't have planned it. But by making the choice to come to SXSW, I'm increasing the probability of those encounters.

Happy accidents are real gifts, and they can open the door to a future that didn't even exist. It's kind of nice sometimes to set up something to encourage or allow happy accidents to happen.

Most discoveries even today are a combination of serendipity and of searching.

He who seeks does not find, but he who does not seek will be found.

Coincidence is the word we use when we can't see the levers and pulleys.

Ah yes, the paradox of publicity is that even as we do it, we know it's killing off the chance of another reader happening across our book in the ideal state of innocence.

Certain things you have to stumble on to. They can't be preprogrammed.

It makes me believe in fate. In most cases, the readings where I've been really bad have usually been the ones where I got the part.

In using chance operations, the mind is enriched.

I've discovered writers by reading books left in airplane seats and weird hotels.

I like going into places that you never know what you're going to find because you can go in with no ideas and leave with thousands.

I guess if you live long enough, anything can happen.

It is really strange how life works, isn't it?

I want a very ordered image, but I want it to come about by chance.

Life was a swarm of accidents waiting in the treetops, descending upon any living thing that passed, ready to eat them alive. You swam in a river of chance and coincidence. You clung to the happiest accidents- the rest you let float by.

The best luck always happens to people who don't need it.