Quotes About Completion

I thought 'UnSouled' would come in at around 400 pages, but it took 650 pages, and even then I felt like I was rushing the conclusion, so I asked my editor and publisher if I could divide it again. So a sequel became a trilogy, and the trilogy became a tetralogy - although we're not calling it that.

The great thing about a trilogy is that it feels like you've got a beginning, a middle, and an end.

I wrote one called 'The No Hotel.' I got inspired in 1989 while I was on a trip down to Brazil, and I didn't finish it until eight years later.

The Triple Crown was a tough beat, but by the time you get to the last leg of the Triple Crown, you just want it to be over.

'It is finished' is the triumphant cry that what I came to do has been done. All is accomplished, completed, fulfilled work.

I was obsessive-compulsive, and I probably had a little splash of Asperger's in there, but in those days, in 1953, you were just a difficult kid. Attention deficit didn't even exist back then. I really had trouble completing tasks - I couldn't sit still.

One trouble with developing speed reading skills is that by the time you realize a book is boring you've already finished it.

I'm a really a fanatical reviser, and there comes a point where I have to declare a truce with the text, or I'll keep fooling with it forever.

When I sit back in my rocking chair someday, I want to be able to say I've done it all.

As far as I'm concerned, I'm a writer who's writing books, and therefore, I don't want to die. You'd miss the end of the book, wouldn't you? You can't die with an unfinished book.

When you've just done it, you're not sure. But when you've sat with it for a couple of hours and you don't want to do anything more to it, that's a great feeling. It can stand on its own two feet.

In a moment, when I'm ready, I will turn off this computer and that will be it. This letter will be finished. A part of me doesn't want to stop writing to you, but I need to. For both of us.

At first, I spend about four hours a day writing. Toward the end of a book, I spend up to 16 hours a day on it, because all I want to do is make it good and get it done.

Designing a house is like doing a movie: Once you're done, you want to say, 'I hope you all enjoy it.'

I just want to be happy. I want to be happy and be able to finish my career in the right way.

That's the huge problem with an abstract painting. When are you done? You're done when you don't want to do it anymore.

Fans want to make sure that they see things resolved, they want to get some closure, a great ending. I think they're going to get that.

Bless you, that you not be taken. Bless you, that you begin in your time and that you end in its fullness. Bless you, in the name of the Redeemer, in my name, against the cruel harvesters of the soul, the takers of life. Bless you, that your life and each life shall be as it is written, for peace is born of completion. - Itkovian

It's the last gift. I am done with this world, for I am alone in it. Alone.

Kay himself has conceded that technological wizards generally fall into two categories: the Michelangelo types who dream of Sistine Chapels and then actually spend years building them, and the da Vincis, who have a million ideas but seldom finish anything themselves.

I'm writing a book. I'm almost finished. I numbered the pages. Now all I have to do is fill them in.

He was aware only of a serpent biting its own tail; a circle completed.

Good, that's a job well done," Grishmak said cheerfully. "Am I the only one who's hungry?

Every desire is an end and every end is a desire then the end of the world is a desire of the world what type of end do you desire?