Book Quote by Alan Bennett

I like to pretend that each book is my first one and last one, because it takes a tremendous amount of energy to do…

— Jan Brett

Whenever I finish a book, I start with a blank slate and never have ideas lined up.

— Erik Larson

If you gone start something finish it, never close a book without finishing its chapter.

— Alyssa Tillmon

I love to read, and I don't believe that you have to finish one book before you start another. --Mallory Pike

— Ann M. Martin

Every time you finish something ... you figure you've finally learned to write, right? Then you start something else and it turns out you…

— Grace Paley

I've never understood why some people think it's virtuous and essential to finish every book they start.

— J. Courtney Sullivan

Sometimes when you finish a book, you don't know quite what you've got.

— Salman Rushdie

Having placed in my mouth sufficient bread for three minutes' chewing, I withdrew my powers of sensual perception and retired into the privacy of…

— Flann O'Brien

I knew I wanted to write novels, but I could not finish what I started. The closer I got, the more ways I'd find…

— Steven Pressfield

When you do your first book, you're just like, "This is my work." And it's just this whole other world that you throw yourself…

— Bryan Lee O'Malley

I always write the end of everything first. I always write the last chapters of my books before I write the beginning....Then I go…

— Truman Capote

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

— Markus Zusak