Harlan Coben Quotes

I never think that a film should answer questions for you. I think it should make you ask a lot of questions.

When I am traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep; it is on such occasions that ideas flow best and most abundantly.

Theater is there to search for questions. It doesn't give you instructions.

For me, there are no answers, only questions, and I am grateful that the questions go on and on. I don't look for an answer because I don't think there is one. I'm very glad to be the bearer of a question.

My movies are not movies of answers but of questions.

When walking, you see things that you miss in a motor car or on the train. You give your mind space to ponder.

If you want to know why the coast is such an inspirational place, ask Herman Melville, Jack London, Nordhoff and Hall, Robert Louis Stevenson or Joseph Conrad. It's a glimpse of eternity. It invites rumination, the relentless whisper of the tide against the shore.

Every thought is an afterthought.

To think is to confine yourself to a single thought that one day stands still like a star in the world's sky.

One sits down first; one thinks afterwards.

While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.

I wasn’t having second thoughts, but I was having thoughts.

I mean, you could lie here day after day, if you wanted to, and think about nothing but waterbugs. Not chase waterbugs, mind you, just think about them. You could spend your whole day, every day, just wondering and pondering about waterbugs, and talking to others about waterbugs . . . and before you realized it, you'd be old. One day you'd realize that you'd never actually seen a waterbug . . . but by then you wouldn't want to, because it would spoil all your beautiful ideas.

You spend your time thinking about that and you get lost in reflection.

Whatever sentence will bear to be read twice, we may be sure was thought twice.

Think and wonder, wonder and think.

I like to sit on things and digest them and then I'll figure out my next move, but I never said I was right for doing anything.

For I have always been a seeker, a dreamer, and a ponderer on seeking and dreaming.

REFLECTION,n: An Action of the mind whereby we obtain a clearer view of our relation to the things of yesterday and are able to avoid the perils that we shall not again encounter

You might want to put this in the back of your craw and think about it.

Just because we increase the speed of information doesn't mean we can increase the speed of decisions. Pondering, reflecting and ruminating are undervalued skills in our culture.

We don't ruminate during a fight. Maybe in a bath, or driving a car, or as we take a walk. But not right smack in the middle of a dramatic moment.

Wonder. Go on and wonder.

Avery: "So I've been doing some thinking." Cam: "Oh God." Avery: "Shut up.