Cases Quote by Edward Albee

The whole, though it be long, stands almost complete and finished in my mind so that I can survey it at a glance. Nor…

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

A poem is a finished work of the mind, it is not the work of a finished mind.

— Mary Ruefle

Only by declaring a book completely finished can one start to see how much remains to be done on it.

— Alain de Botton

Any project that you shoot, it's never going to be completely finished the way that... I don't think I've ever worked on anything where…

— Luke Pasqualino

Part of creating is understanding that there is always more to do; nothing is ever completely finished.

— Rachel Lambert Mellon

I usually think about a play anywhere from six months to a year and a half before I sit down to write it out.

— Edward Albee

Each time I sit down and write a play I try to dismiss from my mind as much as I possibly can the implications…

— Edward Albee

I never sit down to write. When I'm moved, I do it. I just wait for it to come. You just hear it. I…

— Lenny Kravitz

I'm very happy for whatever plaudits might come the way of my work, but I never ever sit down to write x with y…

— Will Self

You can't sit down and write 300 compositions in a three-month period and think that you're doing it all by yourself. Obviously, there's something…

— John Zorn

When you sit down to write, write. Don't do anything else except go to the bathroom, and only do that if it absolutely cannot…

— Stephen King

I won't usually just sit down to write. I'd have done it in my head already. I visualise a story just like a film…

— Ruskin Bond