Even if I don't finish, we need others to continue. It's got to keep going.
I make my own surprises and I'm always surprised to see what I do, to see it when it's finished and the biggest challenge is once I finish it, it's not a failure. It's not a flop.
I should just stay composed and run to the finish line.
Usually when I finish the draft of a book, I'm sure I'll never write another one. I'm just that tired and sick of myself. But then another idea starts percolating. It usually begins with the narrator's name, then some idea that intrigues me about her life or situation. I try to ignore it as long as I can, because I know when I start writing, I'll be right back into it, every single day. But eventually, I just have to. It's a compulsion!
Every book takes me from 35 to 41 days to write. I don't know why that is. I've tried to get it down to 30 or 31, depending on the length of the month, but it won't work. I don't drink while I'm writing because it fuddles my logical processes, but when I finish a book I go down to the kitchen and pour myself a big belt.
Once you have really done all you can, then you can show it to people. But I find this is increasingly not the case with the younger people. They do a first draft and want somebody to finish it off for them with good advice.
It is easier to begin well than to finish well.
Not everyone who started with you will finish with you. Be willing to go without them if you have to.
To finish will leave you feeling like a champion and positively change your life.
The true finish is the work of time, and the use to which a thing is put. The elements are still polishing the pyramids.
What's the difference between a Rottweiler and a poodle peeing on your leg? You let the Rottweiler finish.
We're the highest taxed nation in the world. When I finish the plan, we'll be among the lower taxed, which is very good. I'd like to be the lowest, but you can't be the lowest.
By the time I'm old and retired I'm hoping to contribute enough that people can take this piece and run with it then others, such as the college students that are participating on this can take off and finish out the mission when I'm long gone
I start a picture and I finish it.
You've got to learn a pace that's fast enough to win, but slow enough to finish.
Did Christ finish His work for us? Then there can be no doubt but He will also finish His work in us.
You here to finish me off, Sweetheart?
I become one of those people who walks alone in the dark at night while others sleep or watch Mary Tyler Moore reruns or pull all-nighters to finish up some paper that's due first thing tomorrow. I always carry lots of stuff with me wherever I roam, always weighted down with books, with cassettes, with pens and paper, just in case I get the urge to sit down somewhere, and oh, I don't know, read something or write my masterpiece. I want all my important possessions, my worldly goods, with me at all times. I want to hold what little sense of home I have left with me always.
First, you have to finish.
I have an incomplete album that I want to finish. I have been thinking about the plan during my days in jail, I have sung rock n roll for forty years. After jail, I will continue to rock n roll.