#finish

I am in Boston right now, in fact, to do work at the New England Historical Genealogical Library, where I'm trying to finish up tracing my lineage back to the seventeenth century. ↗

— Rick Moody

#back #boston #century #england #fact

I was writing fiction, but not finishing fiction. ↗

— Elizabeth Moon

#finishing #i #writing

Characters who are on screen from start to finish are not necessarily the ones who have the greatest impact. ↗

— Jeanne Moreau

#finish #greatest #impact #necessarily #ones

Life is given to you like a flat piece of land and everything has to be done. I hope that when I am finished, my piece of land will be a beautiful garden, so there is a lot of work. ↗

— Jeanne Moreau

#beautiful #done #everything #finished #flat

I am 55 years old now. It takes three years to write one book. I don't know how many books I will be able to write before I die. It is like a countdown. So with each book I am praying - please let me live until I am finished. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#am #before #book #books #die

Many people tell me that they don 't know what to feel when they finish one of my books because the story was dark, or complicated, or strange. But while they were reading it, they were inside my world and they were happy. That's good. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#books #complicated #dark #feel #finish

Turning one's novel into a movie script is rather like making a series of sketches for a painting that has long ago been finished and framed. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#been #finished #framed #into #like

But for each of us, isn't life about determining your own finish line? ↗

— Diana Nyad

#determining #each #finish #finish line #life

God will finish what He authors, but He is not obligated to finish what He has not authored. ↗

— Edwin Louis Cole

#finish #god #obligated #will

I had this instinct and I just knew it. It was a very strange thing and as soon as I finished recording it, we were all in the studio saying we have something really special here. ↗

— Deborah Cox

#had #here #i #instinct #just