Finishing A Book Quotes

• I do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.

  Beatrix Potter

  Hate, Book, Years

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• Finishing books - and leaving the world you've created - is always a kind of emotionally wrenching experience. I usually cry.

  Lauren Oliver

  Book, Leaving, Finishing

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• Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.

  Truman Capote

  Children, Book, Writing

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• Finishing a good book is like leaving a good friend.

  William Feather

  Book, Good Friend, Leaving

  William Feather (1949). “The Business of Life”

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• Tis the good reader that makes the good book.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Book, Reading

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.150, Harvard University Press

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• I love books, by the way, way more than movies. Movies tell you what to think. A good book lets you choose a few thoughts for yourself.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Inspiring, Book, Reading

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.32, Dell

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• Here's the secret to finishing that first book. Don't rewrite as you go.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Book, Writing, Secret

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• 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

  Book, Finishing, Males

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• I love books, by the way, way more than movies. Movies tell you what to think. A good book lets you choose a few thoughts for yourself. Movies show you the pink house. A good book tells you there's a pink house and lets you paint some of the finishing touches, maybe choose the roof style,park your own car out front. My imagination has always topped anything a movie could come up with. Case in point, those darned Harry Potter movies. That was so not what that part-Veela-chick, Fleur Delacour, looked like.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Book, Thinking, Imagination

  FaceBook post by Karen Marie Moning from Apr 02, 2015

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• It is a peculiar thing to believe that you know someone intimately only to find that you really do not. It is like finishing a book only to discover that you have missed several key chapters. THE LETTER Chapter 9 page 104

  Richard Paul Evans

  Believe, Book, Keys

  FaceBook post by Richard Paul Evans from May 29, 2011

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• My fondest wish, I suppose, would be to die at the keyboard right after finishing a book, perhaps with a little time off to have some really good sex. It's not, 'Oh, thank God, this is book No. 250. I can die now.'

  Nora Roberts

  Sex, Book, Wish

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