Quotes About Completion

I think after you write something and you're finished with it, there is a sense of loss. That this is a world I can't really re-enter the way that I could when I was working on it. The covers of the book close it to the writer.

The goal of 'Revelations' is that once it's all done and finished, and you've read all of it, it is its own story.

I never want to deal with a book once I'm finished writing.

I finished my dissertation six weeks early. Who does that? As soon as something comes in, I like it to go out.

I never know when a record is finished until it's almost finished.

Finishing games has been something I'm really proud of, seeing something through to the end.

Here's the secret to finishing that first book. Don't rewrite as you go.

I was writing fiction, but not finishing fiction.

The difficult part was to tell the world that I was finishing.

Finishing books - and leaving the world you've created - is always a kind of emotionally wrenching experience. I usually cry.

I can make something for a long time and just not come up with an ending. It's finishing things that I don't enjoy.

I always like to get that finishing blow and satisfy the crowd.

I firmly believe if you start something, you should finish it.

One of the big breakthroughs, I think for me, was reading Robert A. Heinlein's four rules of writing, one of which was, 'You must finish what you write.' I never had any problem with the first one, 'You must write' - I was writing since I was a kid. But I never finished what writing.

Whoever finishes a revolution only halfway, digs his own grave.

My part as an actor ends on the last working day. I think the success or failure only really matters to the producer or whoever it matters to. For me, when I finish the film, I'm done, and if I'm happy, that's that.

Love is simply the name for the desire and the pursuit of the whole.

We need to see, and agree that what we seek already lives within us, and we within it. Now we know our one great task: watch for whatever promises us freedom, and then quietly, consciously refuse to see ourselves through the eyes of what we know is incomplete. Then we live wholeness itself, instead of spending our lives looking for it.

Let others hail the rising sun: I bow to that whose course is run.

It is evident that the grip of 'The Return of the King' on Mr. Jackson is not unlike the grasp the One Ring exerts over Frodo: it's tough for him to let go, which is why the picture feels as if it has an excess of endings. But he can be forgiven. Why not allow him one last extra bow?

If the bond between a husband and his wife is strong, then I think they complete each other, and the relationship also survives longer.

An investigator starts research in a new field with faith, a foggy idea, and a few wild experiments. Eventually the interplay of negative and positive results guides the work. By the time the research is completed, he or she knows how it should have been started and conducted.

There's an awful temptation to just keep on researching. There comes a point where you just have to stop, and start writing.

We shot ten minutes of the movie, and now we're looking for completion funds.