Stephen King Quotes about Letting Go

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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.

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

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

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

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