Answer Quote by Bob Shacochis

I'm asked all the time, "Doesn't it feel great to finish the novel?" And the answer to that is, "No." It's sort of a…

— Bob Shacochis

If a novel or a story works, you don't stop thinking about it; it doesn't truly end.

— Peter Orner

I was aware that I had to pay off things in a convincing emotional fashion, that I had to address the lingering plot points…

— Tod Goldberg

I tend not to look back and dwell on a project once it is finished.

— Angelina Jolie

I work very deliberately, with a plan. But sometimes I come to a point that I planned as the end and it needs softening.…

— Colm Toibin

It is my feeling that a story is not finished until it is read, and that the reader finishes it through his or her…

— Annie Proulx

It is my feeling that a story is not finished until it is read, and that the reader finishes it through his or her…

— Annie Proulx

After you've been working fairly intensively on a novel for six months you never want to see the damn thing again.

— Terry Pratchett

Because I think of novels as collaborative enterprises between the writer and the reader, all of my novels so far have ending with endings…

— Emily Barton

The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.

— Ernest Hemingway

If it feels good coming out, then I really don't care about anything else, for real. It's all about just having fun with it.…

— Brent Faiyaz

I think it's a bit like coming to the end of a book. The plot's in its thickest, all the characters are in a…

— Herman Wouk