“I know when a story is finished when there is not a single thing more I can think to do to it. And since I know at the start what the last line will be, I know when I've reached that point as logically as I can that it's finished. As for the rewriting-it's not foolproof, of course, but if you're honest about having thought of every possibility and you still come back to what you have, what more can you do?” IfsThinkingKnowsWritingStillsI CanStoriesLastsCoursesLinesHonestPossibilityFinishedRewritingFoolproof Author:Amy Hempel
“When I finished a song that I thought was good, I thought, I don't know where that came from, so I have no idea if I can do that again. I'm talking like, a hundred and fifty songs down the line. I still feel that.” IfsKnowsFeelsStillsI CanIdeasSongCan DoLinesTalkingHundredFinishedNo IdeaFifty Author:Trevor Rabin
“When I'm working, I'm so narrowly focused on sound, language, rhythm, flow, that I rarely feel the emotion of the text. It's only after - long after - I've finished a piece that I can experience in any way its emotional charge.” WayFeelsLongI CanLanguageSoundEmotionPiecesEmotionalFlowFocusedFinishedRhythm Author:Taiye Selasi
“Well, I am becoming doddering and old but I have - I'm writing two books a year now. It's like 220,000 words or something like finished, and, honest to God, I can't do that. I really do need the help of, you know, other people working with me.” PeopleKnowsNeedsWritingYearsWellsI CanTwoBookHelpingHonestBecomingFinished Author:John Sandford
“I can't bear to finish things, beyond a certain point they get heavy. There's something so dead about a finished painting.” I CanCertainPaintingBearsHeavyFinishedFinishing Book:The Coup Source: The Coup
“It's something that will never be finished. Something that I can keep developing...and adding to.” I CanFinishedDevelopingDisneyland Author:Walt Disney
“Disneyland is something that will never be finished. It's something that I can keep developing. It will be a live, breathing thing that will need change. A picture is a thing, once you wrap it up and turn it over to Technicolor, you're through. Snow White is a dead issue with me. But I can change the park, because it's alive.” NeedsI CanIdeasDreamTurnsImaginationWhiteIssuesAliveFinishedSnowDevelopingBreathingParksWrapsNeed A ChangeDisneylandSnow White Author:Walt Disney