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Finishing A Book Quotes (page 2)

People are going to think I'm morbid, loving all these sad books. I actually don't mind a happy ending in a novel—certainly, it's nice when it happens. But when you've invested so much time and your fingers have pushed through all that paper and you get to the end…well, a tragic ending kind of goes with the tragedy of finishing a book. Julia Roberts
To compensate a little for the treachery and weakness of my memory, so extreme that it has happened to me more than once to pick up again...books which I have read carefully a few years before. I have adopted the habit for some time now of adding at the end of each book the time I finished reading it and the judgment I have derived of it as a whole, so that this may represent to me at least the sense and general idea I had conceived of the author in reading it. Michel de Montaigne
I had this really great amazing thing happen where I almost finished the book and I really needed to come up with an ending and I decided to go back and re-read the book and see if I could come up with an ending. Cory Doctorow
Richard Russo quote: "Usually by the time I finish a book tour I've just about had..."
Usually by the time I finish a book tour I've just about had it with the book. Richard Russo
I don't keep any copy of my books around... they would embarass me. When I finish writing my books, I kick them in the belly, and have done with them. Ludwig Bemelmans
J. M. Barrie quote: "Our life is a book to which we add daily, until suddenly we..."
Our life is a book to which we add daily, until suddenly we are finished, and then the manuscript is burned. J. M. Barrie
It's red hot, mate. I hate to think of this sort of book getting in the wrong hands. As soon as I've finished this, I shall recommend they ban it. Tony Hancock
Roald Dahl quote: "I'm wondering what to read next." Matilda said. "I've finished..."
I'm wondering what to read next." Matilda said. "I've finished all the children's books. Roald Dahl
Samuel Johnson quote: "A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it."
A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it. Samuel Johnson
Who built Thebes of the seven gates? In the books you will find the name of kings. Did the kings haul up the lumps of rock? And Babylon, many times demolished. Who raised it up so many times? In what houses Of gold-glittering Lima did the builders live? Where, the evening that the Wall of China was finished Did the masons go? Great Rome Is full of triumphal arches. Who erected them? Over whom Did the Caesars triumph? Had Byzantium, much praised in song, Only palaces for its inhabitants? Even... Bertolt Brecht
Karl Popper quote: "No book can ever be finished. While working on it we learn..."
No book can ever be finished. While working on it we learn just enough to find it immature the moment we turn away from it Karl Popper
Nora Ephron quote: "I always read the last page of a book first so that if I die..."
I always read the last page of a book first so that if I die before I finish I'll know how it turned out. Nora Ephron
I hate requests. They make me feel unhappy. It's like when I take a book out of the library. As soon as I start to read it, all I can think about is when I'll finish it. Haruki Murakami
The whole book is posing a question. You think you've won a war - what you've done is finish a war. There was a crime committed in that war the like of which perhaps was never committed in human history. You think about it. William Golding
When I am dead--I say it that way because from the things I know, I do not expect to live long enough to read this book in its finished form--I want you to just watch and see if I'm not right in what I say: that the white man, in his press, is going to identify me with "hate". He will make use of me dead, as he has made use of me alive, as a convenient symbol, of "hatred"--and that will help him escape facing the truth that all I have been doing is holding up a mirror to reflect, to show,... Malcolm X

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