Finishing Novel Quotes

#1. Being published is not a necessary validation or a path everyone wants to take with their work. Writing - and finishing - a novel is a great thing in itself, whether or not the book is published, or becomes widely-read or not.

Garth Nix

#2. When I imagine changing places with her I get the feeling I do on finishing a novel with a brick-wall happy ending
I mean the kind of ending when you never think any more about the characters.

Dodie Smith I Capture The Castle

#3. The porcelain rose is not as pretty as the one that decays.

Eric G. Wilson

#4. Like my hero Virginia Woolf, I do lack confidence. I always find that the novel I'm finishing, even if it's turned out fairly well, is not the novel I had in my mind. I think a lot of writers must negotiate this, and if they don't admit it, they're not being honest.

Michael Cunningham

#5. The man who spends his time choosing one resort after another in a hunt for peace and quiet will in every place he visits find something to prevent him from relaxing.

Seneca.

#6. People read vampire novels and say, 'Oh I want to read another vampire novel.' People read fantasy, and they're like, 'Oh I love fantasy.' I don't know that people are necessarily finishing 'Hunger Games' and immediately wanting to read another dystopian tale.

David Levithan

#7. I've come to realize that however blue my circumstances, if after finishing a chapter of a Dickens novel I feel a miss-my-stop-on-the-train sort of compulsion to read on, then everything is probably going to be just fine.

Amor Towles

#8. 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.

Chang-rae Lee

#9. Yes, it has made me happier. Finishing them has made me happier. Before I wrote the Potter books, I'd never finished a novel. I came close to finishing two.

J.K. Rowling

#10. The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.

Ernest Hemingway,

#11. Usually after finishing a novel, I have a head full of bad ideas for the next one.

Charles McCarry

#12. To change the leanings of the heart, wear a wasp nest on the head (Not this desperate. Yet.)

Jandy Nelson

#13. Two things are difficult about writing a novel. Starting and finishing

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#14. Flannery revealed she had been working on the novel "a year and a half and will probably be two more years finishing it." She described her writing habits in a letter dated July 13: "I must tell you how I work. I don't have my novel outlined and I have to write to discover what I am doing.

Flannery O'Connor

#15. Art gives man a reminder that he is not just a consumer but a creator as well. It awakens in him the urge to struggle and perform great deeds; it fills him with the craving to pass on the Promethean fire to generations to come.

Stanislaw Lem

#16. I've never had time to read. But no one ever kept me from finishing a novel I loved.

Daniel Pennac

#17. I'd like to prove to women my age that there can still be good years ahead of us.

Kirstie Alley

#18. I started a novel right before 'The Imitation Game,' so it's funny now, four years later, to be coming almost back to finishing it.

Graham Moore

#19. When my son will be born, my first goal will be for him. The rest, will be as always for my grandmother.

Lionel Messi