“Oh! write, write. Finish it at once. Let there be an end of this suspense. Fix, commit, condemn yourself.”
Source: Mansfield Park
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English novelist 1775–1817Related quotes

“The author should die once he has finished writing. So as not to trouble the path of the text.”
Source: Postscript to the Name of the Rose

“The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.”

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“You are writing for yourself.”
Source: On Writing Well (Fifth Edition, orig. pub. 1976), Chapter 5, The Audience, p. 26.

As quoted in Conversations with Edward Albee (1988) by Philip C. Kolin, p. 176
Context: I have been both overpraised and underpraised. I assume by the time I finish writing — and I plan to go on writing until I'm 90 or gaga — it will all equal itself out... You can't involve yourself with the vicissitudes of fashion or critical response. I'm fairly confident that my work is going to be around for a while. I am pleased and reassured by the fact that a lot of younger playwrights seem to pay me some attention and gain some nourishment from what I do.

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