Thinking Quotes by Stephen King

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

— Stephen King

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

— Stephen King

I've given up thinking - it keeps getting me into trouble.

— Stephen King

The thought process can never be complete without articulation.

— Stephen King

If you think you've gone insane ... you're nuts.

— Stephen King

I write to find out what I think.

— Stephen King

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

— Stephen King

He had been (Thinking? Praying?) It was all the same thing.

— Stephen King

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

— Stephen King

People seem to think there's a magic formula to writing, i just write 1 word at a time.

— Stephen King

you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.

— Stephen King

For most of us, I think it's easier to admit doing wrong than being stupid.

— Stephen King

I think telling stories is like pushing something. Pushing against uncreation itself, maybe.

— Stephen King

I think we rarely recognize the fifth business in our lives at the time those people are changing us.

— Stephen King

I never think of stories as made things; I think of them as found things. As if you pull them out of…

— Stephen King

I think you're a taker. You've always been one. It's like God left some part of you out when He built you…

— Stephen King

The worst advice? 'Don't listen to the critics.' I think that you really ought to listen to the critics, because sometimes they're…

— Stephen King

The universe (he said) offers a paradox too great for the finite mind to grasp. As the living brain cannot conceive of…

— Stephen King

The kids accepted my drinking as a part of life. Not a particularly pernicious part. I didn't beat up on them. Basically…

— Stephen King

The ghost story movie that scared me the most was The Changeling with George C. Scott. I think that's sometimes overlooked, but…

— Stephen King

I think that we're all mentally ill. Those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better - and maybe…

— Stephen King

I don't have anything against either of the Dead movies, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, none of those movies. If it scares somebody,…

— Stephen King

To me, the greatest thing in the world is downloading TV shows on iTunes because there are no commercials, and yet if…

— Stephen King

Like anything else that happens on its own, the act of writing is beyond currency. Money is great stuff to have, but…

— Stephen King

Has it ever occurred to you," he said abruptly, "that parents are nothing but overgrown kids until their children drag them into…

— Stephen King

I would say plotting is the most difficult thing for me. Characterization is only hard because sometimes I feel I get so…

— Stephen King

I started off thinking Eminem was a flash in the pan, a kind of hip-hop Hanson brother. How wrong I was. Recovery…

— Stephen King

And all that weirdness isn't just going on outside. It's in you too, right now, growing in the dark like magic mushrooms.…

— Stephen King

All right I think we've been down here in the dark long enough. There's a whole other world upstairs. Take my hand…

— Stephen King

People think first love is sweet, and never sweeter than when that first bond snaps. You've heard a thousand pop and country…

— Stephen King

There are all sorts of theories and ideas about what constitutes a good opening line. It's tricky thing, and tough to talk…

— Stephen King

You can go through your whole life telling yourself that life is logical, life is prosaic, life is sane. Above all sane.…

— Stephen King

I think there ought to be some serious discussion by smart people, really smart people, about whether or not proliferation of things…

— Stephen King

The one thing about kids is that you never really know exactly what they're thinking or how they're seeing. After writing about…

— Stephen King

I realized the shells were talking in a voice I recognized. I should have; it was my own. Had I always known…

— Stephen King

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

— Stephen King

I write about rats because they scare the hell out of me. I think we tend to write out our phobias.

— Stephen King

Do you happen to have another Condom? I think I've discovered the cure for headaches.

— Stephen King

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

— Stephen King

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