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

“Poems are never finished - just abandoned”

“A work of art is never finished. It is merely abandoned.”

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

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

“I guess that’s the beauty of books. When they finish they don’t really finish.”

“Dedication: To my daughter Leonora without whose never-failing sympathy and encouragement this book would have been finished in half the time.”

“I never really see a book in the context of what went before because when I finish a book I try to press the delete button so that it’s wiped off the hard drive…”

“A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it.”

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