Quotes About Completion

I had this really great amazing thing happen where I almost finished the book and I really needed to come up with an ending and I decided to go back and re-read the book and see if I could come up with an ending.

There are those who leave without our needing to detain them; we have said all there is to say.

The show had run its course on the Fox network.

I'm a horribly chronic 'get half way through the book and start a new one' person.

We'll only be playing four new songs live, but all the material for the next album is basically finished.

When a thing's done, it's done, and if it's not done right, do it differently next time.

It generally takes me about nine months from the point the book is conceived to the point my editor sends it off to be typeset.

There is no point in putting out 'The Complete BBC Sessions,' and someone's growling that you missed something.

He completed her in a way that she'd never thought possible.

The annoying thing about reading is that you can never get the job done.

If it weren't for her, there would never have been an empty space, or the need to fill it.

The end of a melody is not its goal: but nonetheless, had the melody not reached its end it would not have reached its goal either. A parable.

I had a veritable mania for finishing whatever I began, which often got me into difficulties. On one occasion I started to read the works of Voltaire when I learned, to my dismay, that there were close on one hundred large volumes in small print which that monster had written while drinking seventy-two cups of black coffee per diem. It had to be done, but when I laid aside the last book I was very glad, and said, "Never more!

I hope that's true, because I figured out why I'd never finished it, what I was waiting for. I was waiting for you, Clare. For them. For us. I want to finish it up for you, for them, for us.

You're the answer before I even asked the question.

the base of the cliff. All

beautifully wrapped. She reached for her tape, pulled the end—and got the sliver left on the roll.

All that's done, she thought. "All that's done," she murmured. "So why are we still here?

Somehow it's hard to quit with an odd number of fish, so I wanted one more for four

Maybe you don't go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things you don't do. The things you don't finish.

The voice says, maybe you don't go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things you don't do. The things you don't finish.

Ideas come at any moment -- except when you demand them. Most ideas come while I'm physically active, at the gym, with friends, gardening, so I always carry pen and paper. My first draft is always written in longhand. But once the first dozen chapters, more like short stories, are written, then momentum builds until I can't leave the project until it's done.

Since change is con­stant, you won­der if peo­ple crave death be­cause it's the on­ly way they can get any­thing re­al­ly fin­ished.

maybe you don't go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things you don't do. The things you don't finish.