Finish Quotes - page 3

Every book takes me from 35 to 41 days to write. I don't know why that is. I've tried to get it down to 30 or 31, depending on the length of the month, but it won't work. I don't drink while I'm writing because it fuddles my logical processes, but when I finish a book I go down to the kitchen and pour myself a big belt. (Rex Stout)
I don't see how he can ever finish, if he doesn't begin. View quote
Lewis Carroll
It's not how you start, but it's how you finish. View quote
Michael Phelps
As always, the blessed relief of starting, a feeling that was like falling into a hole filled with bright light. As always, the glum knowledge that he would not write as well as he wanted to write. As always the terror of not being able to finish, of accelerating into a brick wall. As always, the marvelous joyful nervy feeling of journey begun. View quote
Stephen King
Among the tortures and devastations of life is this then - our friends are not able to finish their stories. View quote
Virginia Woolf
Reading the Bible is the fast track to atheism. Reading the Bible means starting at "In the beginning..." and throwing it down with disgust at "... the grace of the lord Jesus be with all. Amen." I'm sure there are lots of religious people who've read the Bible from start to finish and kept their faith, but in my self-selected sample, all the people I know who have done that are atheists. View quote
Penn Jillette
I thought Mr. Millward never would cease telling us that he was no tea-drinker, and that it was highly injurious to keep loading the stomach with slops to the exclusion of more wholesome sustenance, and so give himself time to finish his fourth cup. View quote
Anne Brontë
One has to seek Beauty and Truth, Sir! As I always say to my pupils, you have to work to the finish. There's only one kind of painting. It is the painting that presents the eye with perfection, the kind of beautiful and impeccable enamel you find in Veronese and Titian. View quote
William-Adolphe Bouguereau
I've always figured the only way I could finish a book and get a plot was just to keep making it longer and longer until something happens – you know, until it finds its own plot – because you can't outline and then fit the thing into it. I suppose it's a slow way of working. View quote
Nelson Algren
If you neglect to recharge a battery, it dies. And if you run full speed ahead without stopping for water, you lose momentum to finish the race. View quote
Oprah Winfrey
Do we write books so that they shall merely be read? Don't we also write them for employment in the household? For one that is read from start to finish, thousands are leafed through, other thousands lie motionless, others are jammed against mouseholes, thrown at rats, others are stood on, sat on, drummed on, have gingerbread baked on them or are used to light pipes. (Georg Christoph Lichtenberg)
After 1909, Monet drastically enlarged his brushstrokes, disintegrated his images, and broke through the taming constraints and delicacy of Impressionism for good. Nineteen gnarly paintings, starting in 1909 and carrying through his final seventeen years, finish off the notion that Monet went happily ever after into lily-land. View quote
Jerry Saltz
It is time to put policy ahead of politics and success ahead of the status quo. It is time for a new strategy to produce what we need: a stable Iraq government that takes over for its own people so our troops can finish their job. View quote
Hillary Clinton
A comedy is just a tragedy interrupted, I once said. Do you finish with the kiss or when she opens her eyes to tell him she loves him and sees blonde hairs on his collar? View quote
Alan Ayckbourn
Many are they who have a taste and love for drawing, but no talent; and this will be discernible in boys who are not diligent and never finish their drawings with shading. View quote
Leonardo da Vinci
The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy, the building of a house, the writing of a novel, the demolition of a bridge, and, eminently, the finish of a voyage. View quote
John Galsworthy
Let's save the human race, let's finish off the U.S. empire. View quote
Hugo Chávez
The secret is comprised in three words - Work, finish, publish. View quote
Michael Faraday
Or, as I call it, a Cheesel, it's a Weasel with a Cheese finish. View quote
Bill Bailey
When I finish a painting, it usually looks as surprising to me as to anyone else. View quote
Howard Hodgkin
First, you have to finish. (Michael Schumacher)
You write a book and you finish the book. That's your job done, right? You win the Booker and you have a whole new job. You have to be the thing, right? So instead of writing the story, you somehow are the story. And that I found that sort of terrible. View quote
Anne Enright
At age 77, I need the help of someone with more energy than I can now summon to finish a book. View quote
Anne McCaffrey
Generally I finish a first draft in 2-6 months, then I set it aside for a while so that when I come back to it I can read it with fresh eyes and figure out how to improve it. View quote
Margaret Haddix
Children with obesity and diabetes live harder poorer lives, they often don't finish school and earn much less than their healthy counterparts. View quote
Mark Hyman, M.D.