Stephen King: Quotes about thinking

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“Oh Christ, he groaned to himself, if this is the stuff adults have to think about I never want to grow up”

Stephen King book It

Source: It

“Time is a keyhole, he thought as he looked up at the stars. Yes, I think so. We sometimes bend and peer through it. And the wind we feel on our cheeks when we do - the wind that blows through the keyhole- is the breath of all the living universe.”

Stephen King

Source: The Wind Through the Keyhole

“People with a high tolerance for boredom can get a lot of thinking done.”

Stephen King

Source: Bag of Bones/the Green Mile/the Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

“Sometimes when you're young, you have moments of such happiness, you think you're living on someplace magical, like Atlantis must have been. Then we grow up and our hearts break into two.”

Stephen King book Hearts in Atlantis

Source: Hearts in Atlantis

“I think that real friendship always makes us feel such sweet gratitude, because the world almost always seems like a very hard desert, and the flowers that grow there seem to grow against such high odds.”

Stephen King book The Eyes of the Dragon

Source: The Eyes of the Dragon

“That’s how you know you’re home, I think, no matter how far you’ve gone from it or how long you’ve been in some other place. Home is where they want you to stay longer.”

Stephen King book Revival

Source: Revival

“Give a man or woman back his self-respect, and in most cases-not all, but most-you also give back that person's ability to think with at least some clarity.”

Stephen King book Under the Dome

Source: Under the Dome

“I think that's what people most always do with the stuff they can't make out - just forget it.”

Stephen King book The Green Mile

Source: The Green Mile

“A dimwit thinks nothing is funny unless it's mean.”

Stephen King book The Green Mile

Source: The Green Mile

“I am, when you stop to think of it, a member of a fairly select group: the final handful of American novelists who learned to read and write before they learned to eat a daily helping of video bullshit.”

Stephen King

Source: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“When you own a piano, it's harder to think about moving.”

Stephen King book Misery

Source: Misery

“But hardly anybody ever finds out that their actions really, actually, hurt other people! 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 think reality is thin, you know, thin as lake ice after a thaw, and we fill our lives with noise and light and motion to hide that thinness from ourselves.”

Stephen King book Bag of Bones

Source: Bag of Bones

“Anyone who thinks impressions of old movie actors is funny absolutely cannot be trusted. I think it's like a law of nature.”

Stephen King book The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands

Source: The Waste Lands

“He lay back, put his arm over his eyes, and tried to hold onto the anger, because the anger made him feel brave. A brave man could think. A coward couldn't.”

Stephen King book Misery

Source: Misery

“There's a lot of things people think they can't do and then discover they can when they find themselves tight-wired.”

Stephen King book Lisey's Story

Source: Lisey's Story

“Want a Coke?” Abra asked. “Sugar solves lots of problems, that’s what I think.”

Stephen King book Doctor Sleep

Source: Doctor Sleep

“My heart's with you, Bill, no matter how it turns out. My heart is with all of them, and I think that, even if we forget each other, we'll remember in our dreams.”

Stephen King book It

Source: It