Completion Quotes

“I work on a canvas until I think it is finished. I paint a picture and then I just leave it alone.”

“I won't leave any unfinished manuscripts. I'll finish 'em.”

“And so, having run over all the Counties of Britain, I have at length arrived at the period of my race.”

“You have to finish things - that's what you learn from, you learn by finishing things.”

“The work of the book is done, and it is with a feeling of relief that I lay down my pen.”

“For a dyed-in-the-wool author, nothing is as dead as a book once it is written.”

“Much good work is lost for the lack of a little more.”

“My pictures are finished when the subject comes back.”

“The picture is painted and that is all there is to it.”

“The world is full of starters, but it is the finishers who are the winners.”

“Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.”

“I've started so I'll finish.”

“The only way to get a thing done is to start to do it, then keep on doing it, and finally you'll finish it.”

“The two things that make you a writer are that you write and you finished.”

“It's the starts and finishes that count, not the number of starts.”

“In the final analysis, it's not what you start, it's what you finish.”

“I have no more secrets. I have told everything. My job is done.”

“A picture is finished when all trace of the means used to bring about the end has disappeared.”

“It’s a wonderful feeling, but it’s also a slightly sad feeling. You’ve lost something. The problem is no longer there.”

“It is a strange feeling, writing the last words of a book. You are glad to be finished, but sorry too.”