Stephen King Quotes About Letting Go

Quotes about: Letting Go

• Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.

  Stephen King

  Friendship, Letting Go, Song

  FaceBook post by Stephen King from Jan 08, 2014

• It’s hard to let go. Even when what you’re holding onto is full of thorns, it’s hard to let go. Maybe especially then.

  Stephen King

  Letting Go, Thorns, Hard To Let Go

  Stephen King (2014). “Joyland”, p.94, Titan Books

• Because who would ever want to get close to another person if they knew how hard the letting-go part was? In your heart they only die a little at a time, don't they? Like a plant when you go away on a trip and forget to ask a neighbor to poke in once in awhile with the old watering-can, and its so sad—

  Stephen King

  Letting Go, Heart, Going Away

  Stephen King (2016). “Lisey's Story: A Novel”, p.332, Simon and Schuster

• She ran out of her marriage the way a woman can run out of a pair of sandals when she decides to let go and really dash.

  Stephen King

  Letting Go, Running, Way

  Stephen King (2008). “Just After Sunset: Stories”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

• Good writing is often about letting go of fear and affectation. Affectation itself, beginning with the need to define some sorts of writing as 'good' and other sorts as 'bad' is fearful behavior.

  Stephen King

  Letting Go, Writing, Needs

  Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.121, Simon and Schuster

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