I thought I would, you know, go to college, get to law school, finish, and then get a job and work as a lawyer, but that proved to be not a good fit for me.
I've just finished my next collection, Possible Side Effects, and I'm now working on a collection of holiday stories as well as a memoir about my relationship with my father.
With music, you're working with a producer, and you walk out of the studio six hours later with a track that's almost completely finished. There's an almost immediate payoff.
I just finished writing an essay about William Maxwell, an American writer whose work I admire very much.
Once I have the grain of an idea, it haunts me until I finish the story. I don't like to be haunted, of course, so immediately get to work.
I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.
I do tend to feel more connected to dead writers, perhaps because they have finished their work.
'It is finished' is the triumphant cry that what I came to do has been done. All is accomplished, completed, fulfilled work.
Ideally I'd like to be working steadily as an actor: movies, a TV series, that sort of thing. I've been through a few different TV development cycles, and they didn't work out. When the time and project are right, it'll come together. Like I tell a l...
In the last years of the nineteen-eighties, I worked not at startups but at what might be called finish-downs. Tech companies that were dying would hire temps - college students and new graduates - to do what little was left of the work of the employ...
Whatever it takes to finish things, finish. You will learn more from a glorious failure than you ever will from something you never finished.
Canadian Ambassador: Can I finish? Please, can I finish? [pause] Canadian Ambassador: OK I'm finished.
make only your trust in God; His author must surely finish his work. Hold on!
I opened up a frozen-yogurt business out of college. I didn't finish college; I went halfway, and then I worked for Joel Silver, the producer, as a driver for a year.
The last thing you want to do is finish playing or doing anything and wish you would have worked harder.
It took some time to gather the research and develop it into the storyline, and to finally finish an origin myth poem that I had been working on for twenty years.
Working at a startup to make a lot of money was never a thing, and that's why I decided to just finish up school. That was way more important for me.
That's the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it.
The finished product is often of less importance than the skills and confidence gained through the process and the way in which the community is strengthened through people in it work and are brought together.
I'm perfectly proud of the work I did, looking back at it. I know I've had a bit of a revision since my 'Big Finish' stories came out.
I am now going from a prison to a palace: I have finished my work, and am now going to receive my wages.
