#finished

I was never confident about finishing a book, but friends encouraged me. When I finished my first book, it was accepted by a publisher right away and became an instant bestseller. One male critic called it the most shocking book he ever read. ↗

— Jackie Collins

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I don't write drafts. I write from the beginning to the end, and when it's finished, it's done. ↗

— Clifford Geertz

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It almost hurts me to walk down a road and have people grab my hand and ask for my autograph and not sit and talk. When I'm finished I'm not going to be on the front page, but I'm going to be just as happy without the publicity. ↗

— Terry Fox

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Just because I was almost 62, I did not feel decrepit and felt I wasn't finished being a soldier yet. ↗

— Gerald Griffin

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I don't remember ever having finished a book. ↗

— Bridget Hall

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A painting is finished when the subject comes back, when what has caused the painting to be made comes back as an object. ↗

— Howard Hodgkin

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I would like to be a scholar in whatever I do, a scholar is never finished, he is always seeking and I am always seeking. ↗

— Ahmad Jamal

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I didn't want to save art - I respected the older artists too much to think art needed saving. But I knew it was finished, even though, at that time, I didn't know what I would do. ↗

— Sol LeWitt

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There's a whole bunch of unfinished stuff. Then I've got books of lyrics. I find it frustrating to finish a song and not be able to record it... so I don't write a million songs. ↗

— Christine McVie

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I am so anti-people's opinions when I'm making a record, but when it's finished and I put it out there, I hope somebody likes it. ↗

— Gary Allan

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