Writing Completion Quotes

At a certain point my novels set. They set just as hard as that jam jar. And then I know they are finished.

There's that process of writing it - then you come out of your room into the sunlight, and you now have to complete the circuit and make the connection finally with the audience.

I never know when I finish the novel I am writing which will be the next novel out of the station.

When I'm writing, I like to seal everything off and face the wall, not to look outside the window. The only way out is through the sentences.

It is my contention that the process of reading is part of the process of writing, the necessary completion without which writing can hardly be said to exist.

It's a feeling of happiness that knocks me clean out of adjectives. I think sometimes that the best reason for writing novels is to experience those four and a half hours after you write the final word.

One of the big breakthroughs, I think for me, was reading Robert A. Heinlein's four rules of writing, one of which was, 'You must finish what you write.' I never had any problem with the first one, 'You must write' - I was writing since I was a kid. But I never finished what writing.

I consider the process of gestation just as important as when you're actually sitting down putting words to the paper.

I'm never more miserable than when I write, and never more happy than having finished and having it sitting in front of me.

The first series I wrote, 'L.A. Candy,' was always meant to be a three-book series, so when I started out it was all outlined that way and by the time I was done with the third book, I had become so involved and the process and the stories, I was a little bit sad to be done.

I never really know the title of a book until it's finished.

The time to begin writing an article is when you have finished it to your satisfaction. By that time you begin to clearly and logically perceive what it is you really want to say.

There's an old saying: 'No piece of writing is ever finished, it's just abandoned.' But my own rule is: No piece of work is done until you want to kill everyone involved in the publishing process, especially yourself.

Sustaining a narrative in sentences and paragraphs is very different from songwriting. But the dedication to the craft and just the endurance that it takes, you know, to stick with it and believe you can pull it out and make it real and finish it, I learned that a long time ago writing songs.

I'm one of the idiots that negotiates after I write.

Out of all of the things I've written, 'Dot' was the quickest from first thoughts to full production.

A writer stops writing the moment he or she puts the last full stop to their text, and at that point the book is in limbo and doesn't come to life until the reader picks it up and the reader flips the pages.

The only difference between a good writer who publishes a book and a good writer who doesn't is that the writer who publishes actually finished her book.

I visited England immediately after I finished writing 'The Marrying Season,' before any editing or revisions.