Top 23 Quotes About Finishing A Novel
#1. Usually after finishing a novel, I have a head full of bad ideas for the next one.
Charles McCarry
#2. I am an historian, I am not a believer, but I must confess as a historian that this penniless preacher from Nazareth is irrevocably the very center of history. Jesus Christ is easily the most dominant figure in all history.
H.G.Wells
#3. 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
#4. Good prose almost always requires both showing and telling, scenes and summary, the two basic components of creative prose.
Laurie Alberts
#5. I've never had time to read. But no one ever kept me from finishing a novel I loved.
Daniel Pennac
#6. I needed a Chuck Bass. He'd get me. He'd understand me. We were one and the same, Chuck and I.
Abbi Glines
#7. I smiled. He had come for me. Saved me. How many times would this man save my life?
Lisa Tawn Bergren
#8. I believe in the magic and authority of words.
Rene Char
#9. 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
#11. 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
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. Why not just eliminate the federal income tax?
Gore Vidal
#18. 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
#19. As Lord Chesterfield said of the generals of his day, 'I only hope that when the enemy reads the list of their names, he trembles as I do.'
Duke Of Wellington
#20. If you eat good, you feel good. I would encourage every body else to do the same.
Ruben Studdard
#21. 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
#22. Listen, emotions have logic. Without emotions humans wouldn't care for each other, and if they didn't care for each other, the species would have died out. To care for others is self-preservation. You care for someone and they care for you.
Matt Haig
#23. Your tattoos are supposed to be some connection to your personality. That's a lot more important than going in and just picking one off a wall. I've never understood why people get butterflies tattooed on their bottoms or whatever. That's really weird.
Ville Valo
