[A] finished tale may give a man immortality in the light and literary sense; but an unfinished tale suggests another immortality, more essential and more strange.
When to people tell the same lie..." "They are working together," Will finished
After college, I was living in New York and wrote furiously, a huge novel that I knew was a failure. I hoped that the book would work, but to be honest, I think I knew it would never work, even as I was finishing it.
Jigsaw Lady is the working title of a science fiction novel I've had in my head for darn near 15 years. I think I'll start work on it next year (in all my spare time) but I'd like to get it finished some day.
We never work on only one project because we never know if we will get permission for a project. So, for 'Over the River,' we started in 1992. I was just finishing 'The Umbrellas' in Japan and California, and I was also working on getting permission ...
A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it.
The Holy Spirit will always point people to the finish work of Jesus
For me, once I've worked on something and it's finished, it's like an ex-boyfriend: you don't go back to them.
When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
When I'm in the midst of finishing a book, I can be working around the clock.
Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions.
There were days that I worked all the time, without a layoff, or a rest, finishing one picture and reporting for another sometimes on the same day.
Well actually, we are working on the live album from the shows in Japan. I'm trying to get that finished.
the light too brief to finish any work — the woman seeks to amplify the dark
Our true remembrance to President Kennedy is in our actions to honor the unspoken words and finish the unfinished work today and tomorrow and for as long as it takes.
I never want projects to be finished; I have always believed in unfinished work. I got that from Schubert, you know, the 'Unfinished Symphony.'
You can't start a movie by having the attitude that the script is finished, because if you think the script is finished, your movie is finished before the first day of shooting.
My grandfather started his autobiography before he died; he never finished it. I would like to finish his autobiography because I finished mine.
Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits.
If a story isn't working, I'm simply unable to finish it. That's what usually tells me something is wrong.
Look at all the marriages that have been wonderfully successful where fellows finished their army service and came home to go to college on G.I. bills and their wives worked.
