“A book is never finished; it's abandoned.”
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
Cultural Confinement, 1972
“A book is never finished; it's abandoned.”
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
“Art is never finished, only abandoned.”
Variant: Art is never finished, only abandoned.
“Poems are never finished - just abandoned”
Unsourced
“For our stories are not yet finished, and perhaps will never be.”
Source: Crewel Lye
“A work of art is never finished. It is merely abandoned.”
“What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.”
“Perhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin.”
“One's work may be finished someday, but one's education never.”
“A system is never finished being developed until it ceases to be used.”
Attributed to Gerald M. Weinberg in: Hannes P. Lubich (1995) Towards a CSCW Framework for Scientific Cooperation in Europe. p. 7