Quotes About Completion

If I had a story idea that I felt would work best in three volumes I might write a trilogy eventually. I'd very likely write it all at once, though, so I could work on it as a whole and not broken into individual volumes.

I'll live with whatever sentence I'll get in the end - I'll just finish my book.

I always get excited when I find out there's a sequel, because all the work is kind of done.

I want to tell a story and shape it all the way through to the end.

It's often the case that the most strained moments in books are the very beginning and the very end - the getting in and the getting out. The ending, especially: it's awkward, as if the writer doesn't know when the book is over and nervously says it all again.

It's a bad day when you don't get the work done that you need to get done or you don't get it done to the satisfaction.

Better never begin than never make an end.

There are two essential epochs in any enterprise - to begin, and to get done.

I'm a believer that you shouldn't really talk about the drawing until you're done with the drawing.

God loves the plagiarist. And so it is written, 'God created humankind in His image, in the image of God He created them. God is the original plagiarizer. With a lack of reasonable sources from which to filch - man created in the image of what? the animals? - the creation of man was an act of reflexive plagiarizing; God looted the mirror. When we plagiarize, we are likewise creating in the image and participating in the completion of Creation.

Publicamos para não passar a vida a corrigir rascunhos. Quer dizer, a gente publica um livro para livrar-se dele

To have another life, one ought to be able to wrap up the first one, and the job should be done neatly.

And that, said John, is that.

Stories help me feel complete.

Simchat Torah (rejoicing of the Torah) marks the day we complete the Torah and start it all over again. The last verses of the last book (Deuteronomy) are read, followed by the first verses of the first book (Genesis). It's a clear snapshot of how we hold both the ending and the beginning in the same moment, not to mention that the ending never ends.

But when it gets dark, I'm off the hook. The day is officially rolled up and put away. I'm free to watch movies or stare at the wall, no longer holding myself accountable for what I might or might not have gotten done because the time for getting something done is over until tomorrow.

Repentance does not bring a sense of serenity or of completion but stimulates a reaching out in further effort.

A man once told me that all books should end at chapter seventy-seven.

I can die peacefully now as both my babies have their own babies.

I believe I never finished playing Sherry Palmer, that's why when the thought they shot and killed me, Penny's butt kept breathing on the floor, because I believe that she never died. I just feel like that's a character that I would want to play to feel a completion, because I never really completed playing her.

The inaccuracy issue. Going back to college having a 56-percent completion percentage. Obviously, it's not great. But I think that it's a little blown out of proportion.

Finality is death. Perfection is finality. Nothing is perfect. There are lumps in it.

I've always gone for a kind of perfection.

When I start something, I have to finish it, and I'm a super perfectionist, too.