“A good book is never finished—-it goes on whispering to you from the wall.”

— Virginia Euwer Wolff

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American children's writer 1937

Anatole Broyard (1920–1990) American literary critic

‘About Books, Recoiling, Rereading, Retelling’, New York Times, February 22, 1987.

“A book is never finished; it's abandoned.”

Gene Fowler (1890–1960) American journalist

Quoted in H. Allen Smith's The Life and Legend of Gene Fowler (1977); as cited by Paul Dickson (1990), The New Official Rules, p. 74

“I finished the Koran – a good book and interesting.”

George S. Patton (1885–1945) United States Army general

Diary, October 30, 1942, published in The Patton Papers 1940-1945 https://books.google.com/books?id=zaRKDgAAQBAJ&pg=PT79 (1996), p. 79.

“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”

Italo Calvino The Uses of Literature

Source: The Uses of Literature

“I consider my painting finished when my eyes goes to a particular spot on the canvas. But if I put the picture away about thirty feet on the wall and the movements keep returning to me and the eye seems to be responding to something living, then it is finished.”

William Baziotes (1912–1963) American painter

Source: 1950s, Artists' Session at Studio 35, (1950), p. 213

“The book of Philippine history is far from finished. However, does every sentence in our country’s story need to be finished with a period?”

Francis Escudero (1969) Filipino politician

2015, Speech: Declaration as Vice Presidential Candidate

“All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they really happened and after you are finished reading one you feel that it all happened to you and after which it all belongs to you.”

Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist

A Letter from Cuba (1934)
Context: All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you; the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse, and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was.
Context: All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you; the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse, and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.

“His books are kept on freestanding shelves hung at different angles on a sea-green wall. They defy gravity, as good books should.”

David Levithan Boy Meets Boy

Source: Boy Meets Boy

“That heartbreaking moment when you finish an amazing book, and you are forced to return to reality.”

Grace Paley (1922–2007) American writer and activist

“A thousand times good night. A thousand times the worse, to want thy light. Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books, but love from love, toward school with heavy looks.”

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) English playwright and poet

“A good book is never finished—-it goes on whispering to you from the wall.”

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