Completion Quote by Geoff Dyer

How can you tell when a piece is finished?'I asked. 'You can't,' he said flatly. 'All you can tell is when you can't do…

— Mary Hoffman

Sometimes people won't even finish a piece that you wrote, because they've already decided what it is that you want to say, and generally…

— Louis Menand

The strength and clarity of the picture you envision at the start will tell you when you are done. You are finished when you…

— Richard Schmid

When you don't know what you're talking about, it's hard to know when you're finished.

— Tommy Smothers

There's always that moment when you realize what it's going to be. You might have an overarching theme and you need to fill in…

— Rosanne Cash

Sometimes you don’t know what you're writing until you've finished it.

— Vu Tran

What is uttered is finished and done with.

— Thomas Mann

When I'm writing, I generally toy with an idea until it manifests itself - meaning a phrase or a tune comes into my head…

— Paul Anka

Humans generally get out the gist of what they need to say right at the beginning, then spend forever qualifying, contradicting, burnishing or taking…

— Richard Ford

When I'm putting a story together, I generally know the ending and a couple of the points halfway through, and I've got sort of…

— Alan Moore

Though I revise constantly as I write, I will usually revise much of the work again after I've reached the ending.

— Joyce Carol Oates

It is desperately important to remember when enough is enough, when you've finished the scene.

— John Mortimer