Quotes About Finishing A Good Book

#1. Movies tell you what to think. A good book lets you choose a few thoughts for yourself. Movies show you the pink house. A good book tells you there's a pink house and lets you paint some of the finishing touches, maybe choose the roof style, park your own car out front.

Karen Marie Moning

#2. Half a page
and the morning is already ancient.

Michael Ondaatje

#3. Literature is painting, architecture, and music.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

#4. It's easy to get published once you have written a really good book and the hard part, 99 percent of what you need to worry about, is really finishing it.

Laini Taylor

#5. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakens.' On

Robin S. Sharma

#6. It is better to have nothing, for at last even our bones will fall. It is better to have nothing.

Marilynne Robinson

#7. She could give herself up to the written word as naturally as a good dancer to music or a fine swimmer to water. The only difficulty was that after finishing the last sentence she was left with a feeling at once hollow and uncomfortably full. Exactly like indigestion.

Jean Rhys

#8. Lots of water under that bridge, let's not drown ourselves in it.

John Banville

#9. Around the world today we're seeing an incredible transformation, from what I would call a biocidal species, one that - whether we intentionally or unintentionally - have designed our systems to kill life, a lot of the time.

Jane Poynter

#10. My fondest wish, I suppose, would be to die at the keyboard right after finishing a book, perhaps with a little time off to have some really good sex. It's not, 'Oh, thank God, this is book No. 250. I can die now.'

Nora Roberts

#11. Now I've got the world swingin' from my nuts
And damn it feels good to be a gangsta!

Willie D

#12. Not To Attempt To Control Sinful Behavior Is To Attempt Godly Principles

Sunday Adelaja

#13. Finishing a good book is like leaving a good friend.

William Feather

#14. I want to talk to you," she said, "for hours and days and forever, but we can't right now. Not here, and not while we're still in danger.

Dan Wells

#15. The best ideas start as conversations.

Jonathan Ive

#16. The United States spends more money on African aid than any nation on earth.

Tony Snow

#17. I sit just looking back at our lives.
I wish I could go back in the time.
To make up for all that I did wrong.
To make our own beautiful song.

Dreamer

#18. That cold accretion called the world, so terrible in the mass, is so non formidable, even pitiable, in its units.

Thomas Hardy

#19. I think the hard work of writing is just how long a book is terrible before it's good."--Leigh Bardugo

Leigh Bardugo

#20. It's all about training and rhythm and getting it right on the day.

Jonathan Edwards