Abandon Quote by Tom Winton

“You never finish a book. You only abandon it.”

— Peter Watts

“I stopped writing the book that I wanted to write, and wrote the one the book wanted to write.”

— Jim Lewis

“A writer's job is never finished.”

— Sai Marie Johnson

“A novel is an interminable effort. You think until you are weary. You write until you are ready to scream. You stop. You rest.…

— Anonymous

“Writing a book is like dating. It's exciting. It's dreamy. And after four years, I just want to end it.”

— Carole Radziwill

“if you start writing with no idea of an ending, you’ll produce the longest, and best story you’ve ever written.”

— Blowthecandlesoutt

“Every good story needs a good ending. Don't write the beginning of a novel without knowing the end of it.”

— A.D.Y. Howle

“I learned that books are never finished, that it is possible for stories to go on writing themselves without an author.”

— Paul Auster

“This life is short, and you never know how many chapters you have left in your novel,”

— Brittainy C. Cherry

“I have never written a novel yet...without doing 40,000 words or more and finding they were all wrong and going back and starting again,…

— P.G. Wodehouse

“Now that I was a novelist, I could not face the ignominy of failing to produce novels.”

— Thomas Keneally

“...my novels are like life - I never know where they're going until I get to the end...”

— John Geddes A Familiar Rain