Stephen King Quotes

To most people, nothing is more troublesome than the effort of thinking.

Less than fifteen per cent of the people do any original thinking on any subject. The greatest torture in the world for most people is to think.

The grinding of the intellect is for most people as painful as a dentist's drill.

Thinking is harder work than hard work.

Thinking is difficult and sometimes unpleasant.

People think that talking is a sign of thinking. It isn't, for the most part' on the contrary, it's a mechanical dodge of the body to relieve oneself of the strain of thinking, just as exercising the muscles helps the body to become temporarily unconscious of its weight, its pain, its weariness, and the foreknowledge of its doom.

Sometimes my mind boggles. It's so deep my mind actually boggles.

For me, imagination would always provide a means of escape.

It's great concentrating so hard you feel your brain will explode.

Having a brain hurt so much sometimes.

The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.

Try not to think too often, you'll only hurt yourself

Whatever you can think, you can create; just have a very clear vision... Once you have your snapshot, work on filling in the blanks to get to that place.

In both writing and sleeping, we learn to be physically still at the same time we are encouraging our minds to unlock from the humdrum rational thinking of our daytime lives.

Thinking is a bit uncomfortable, but you'll get used to it. A matter of time and practice.

The greatest multiplex in the universe is inside your mind, and the only ticket you need is a good, well-written novel.

I will dream today; for I must unscrew my head somehow.

The imagination is far better at inventing tortures than life because the imagination is a demon within us and it knows where to strike, where it hurts. It knows the vulnerable spot, and life does not, our friends and lovers do not, because seldom do they have the imagination equal to the task.

Capability means imagination.

C'mon kid. Think a minute, even if it hurts.

I feel like developing the muscle of my imagination became a way to survive reality.

Fantasy is only a state of mind that you can employ when existing in a real context.

To know how scientists engage in visual imagery is to understand how they think creatively.

Human beings have a physical need to tell themselves when at work: "Let's have done with it now," and it's having constantly to go on thinking in the face of this need when philosophizing that makes this work so strenuous.