Books Quote by Anonymous

“To leave a novel unfinished, is to leave the characters stranded.”

— Anonymous

“These leave-takings in novels are as disagreeable as they are in real life; not so sad, indeed, for they want the reality of sadness;…

— Anthony Trollope

“To finish is a sadness to a writer- a little death. He puts the last word down and it is done. The story goes…

— John Steinbeck

“A novel is an interminable effort. You think until you are weary. You write until you are ready to scream. You stop. You rest.…

— Anonymous

Writing a book is a bit like going on location for a movie. You're absent from your life, your family, and your friends. You're…

— Michael Crichton

A book is never finished; it's abandoned.

— Gene Fowler

“And thus it happens that the reader, the closer he comes to the novel's end, the more he wishes he were back in the…

— Franz Kafka

The reason I never want a book to end is that I start to feel like the characters are my friends. I'll miss them…

— Miley Cyrus

There's a great feeling of relief when finishing a good book, but also a sadness. You get to know the characters so well, you…

— D Michael Hardy

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

“All stories come to an end. That moment when we sigh and close the book, perhaps sit back in our chair and rest our…

— Mary Alice Monroe

“I am a character in someone's book whose end has not yet been written”

— MBarreto Condado