Annoying Quote by Anne Enright

“I have this thing about books – a disease almost – that won’t let me give up until I’ve read to the end.”

— Nicola Haken

As far as I'm concerned, I'm a writer who's writing books, and therefore, I don't want to die. You'd miss the end of the…

— Terry Pratchett

I'd like to end the book a lot of ways. Except I don't have any answers. Use your common sense. Be nice. This is…

— P. J. O'Rourke

Life is too short to waste time on books that end badly

— Jayne Ann Krentz

There were times where I felt I was pressing a little bit too hard with the humor, and I had to pull back, because…

— Joshua Ferris

“Books are like a disease. Once you've got it, it's incurrable and lifelong”

— Janice Young Brooks

If you try to control it too much, the book is dead. You have to let it fall apart quite early on and let…

— Anne Enright

Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness.

— George Orwell

You can't die with an unfinished book.

— Terry Pratchett

What annoys me about most self-help books is that they have no tragic sense. They have no sense that life is fundamentally incomplete rather…

— Alain de Botton

When I finish a book, I'm so exhausted that I'm sort of letting myself think that this could be the end.

— Jo Nesbo

“A book is finished when it does not want me to work on it any longer...it reaches a point when it feels like it…

— Antonio Lobo Antunes