Stephen King: Quotes about thinking

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“The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them - words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out. But it's more than that, isn't it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you've said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it. That's the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for want of a teller, but for want of an understanding ear.”

Stephen King book The Body

Different Seasons (1982), The Body

“Hearts can break. Yes. Hearts can break. Sometimes I think it would be better if we died when they did, but we don't.”

Stephen King book Hearts in Atlantis

Source: Hearts in Atlantis (1999)

“I think part of being a parent is trying to kill your kids.”

Stephen King book Christine

Source: Christine

“Gordie: Do you think I'm weird?
Chris: Definitely.
Gordie: No man, seriously. Am I weird?
Chris: Yeah, but so what? Everybody's weird”

Stephen King book The Body

Source: The Body

“As a species we're fundamentally insane. Put more than two of us in a room, we pick sides and start dreaming up reasons to kill one another. Why do you think we invented politics and religion?”

“I think that we're all mentally ill. Those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better - and maybe not all that much better after all.”

“Writing is not life, but I think that sometimes it can be a way back to life.”

Source: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“High school isn't a very important place. When you're going you think it's a big deal, but when it's over nobody really thinks it was great unless they're beered up.”

Stephen King book Carrie

Source: Carrie

“People don't get better, they just get smarter. When you get smarter you don't stop pulling the wings off flies, you just think of better reasons for doing it.”

Stephen King book Carrie

Source: Carrie

“I write to find out what I think.”

“What we like to think of ourselves and what we really are rarely have much in common….”

Stephen King book The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three

Source: The Drawing of the Three

“I'm one of those people who doesn't really know what he thinks until he writes it down.”

Stephen King book 11/22/63

Source: 11/22/63

“Anything with the power to make you laugh over thirty years later isn’t a waste of time. I think something like that is very close to immortality.”

Stephen King book Hearts in Atlantis

Source: Hearts in Atlantis

“and so will the world end, I think, a victim of love rather than hate. For love's ever been the more destructive weapon, sure.”

Stephen King The Dark Tower

Source: The Dark Tower

“I think the author who influenced me the most as a writer was Richard Matheson.”

As quoted in an edition of I Am Legend (1995)
Context: I think the author who influenced me the most as a writer was Richard Matheson. Books like I Am Legend were an inspiration to me.

“He smiles a lot. But I think there might be worms inside him making him smile.”

Stephen King book The Stand

Source: The Stand

“For men, I think, love is a thing formed of equal parts lust and astonishment. The astonishment part women understand. The lust part they only think they understand.”

Stephen King book Bag of Bones

Source: Bag of Bones

“I think the best stories always end up being about the people rather than the event, which is to say character-driven.”

Source: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“But I believe in love, you know; love is a uniquely portable magic. I don’t think it’s in the stars, but I do believe that blood calls to blood and mind calls to mind and heart to heart.”

Stephen King book 11/22/63

Source: 11/22/63 (2011), Chapter Final Notes, page 1030,(First Scribner hardcover edition November 2011)
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“I know life is hard, I think everyone knows that in their hearts, but why dos it have to be cruel, as well? Why does it have to bite?”

Stephen King book 11/22/63

Source: 11/22/63