L-m-montgomery Quote by L.M. Montgomery

“There's always a piece of unfinished work left, but I suppose there is always someone to finish it.”

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

“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

“(How do you know a piece is finished?:) It's never finished. The subject is never exhausted. -Louise Bourgeois”

— Jan Greenberg

“The thing about finishing a story is that finishing is really only the beginning.”

— William Herring

“It's always difficult when someone dies. Things are left unfinished, regrets gape wide open like a wound with no one there to stitch it…

— Jessica Thompson

“The maid found a handkerchief of hers, under the bed in which she had died. A ring that had been missing turned up in…

— Hilary Mantel

“A painting is never finished - it simply stops in interesting places.”

— Paul Gardner

“A heartbreaking paradox: if only I can finish my work so that it will live. Yet if it is finished, completed , a part…

— Hélène Cixous

“Well, if you are to help me with my work, you had better get used to stories without endings. True stories seldom have endings.”

— Frances Hardinge

“It was a long story, and like most of the stories in the world, never finished. There was an ending - there always is…

— Jeanette Winterson

“What if everything was unfinished? What if everything was made incomplete?”

— David Vann

“I just wrote a book. But don't go and buy it yet, because I don't think it's finished.”

— Lawrence Welk