Back Quote by Patrick Modiano

The way I feel about every book is this: you don't finish it, you abandon it. All of my books have in some sense…

— Russell Banks

I'm always a bit disappointed when I've finished working on a book.

— Chris Van Allsburg

Every time you finish a book, you have a terrible feeling that there's just never going to be another one. But fortunately, so far,…

— Salman Rushdie

I was never confident about finishing a book, but friends encouraged me. When I finished my first book, it was accepted by a publisher…

— Jackie Collins

After my first book, I figured that since it was successful, I wanted to continue things better.

— Ravi Subramanian

A book is not completed till it's read.

— Salman Rushdie

I've decided I don't like books that end with 'The End'. The fact that there are no more pages, suggests to me that the…

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

Usually a feeling of disappointment follows the book, because what I hoped to write is not what I actually accomplished. However, it becomes a…

— Anita Desai

I have found that each of my books has developed out of something I have written in a previous book. Some thought evidently unfinished.

— Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Always, at the end of every book, there are things you will be unsatisfied with, and still more things that later on you will…

— Maggie O'Farrell

Once I’m done with a book, I’m done! I’m just not a sequel kind of girl. By the time I’ve finished a book I’ve…

— Sarah Dessen

No book can ever be finished. While working on it we learn just enough to find it immature the moment we turn away from…

— Karl Popper