Closure Quote by Walter J. Ong

Books have this function that help me to understand the work I've done, to wrap it up. Once it's done, fortunately, it doesn't mean…

— Wolfgang Tillmans

I don't see novels ending with any real sense of closure.

— Michael Ondaatje

“Closures are often used to capture state for event handlers.”

— Eric Freeman

The beauty of the written word is that it can be held close to the heart and read over and over again.

— Florence Littauer

It's just like sex; when [a book is] finished, it's finished.

— Haruki Murakami

The flood of print has turned reading into a process of gulping rather than savoring.

— Raymond Chandler

You see something happening and you bang away at it. Either you get what you saw or you get something else--and whichever is better…

— Garry Winogrand

However, a rich print environment helps only when more reading is done.

— Stephen D. Krashen

The interesting part about the writing process is that you can never see all the way to the end, not if something is happening…

— Tom Perrotta

I think I can recognize when a piece is at a state of completion. I always say to my wife, "Oh yeah, it's roughly…

— Geoff Dyer

We don't know where print is going.

— Simon Armitage

Everything I've ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it.

— Toni Morrison