Book Quote by Wolfgang Tillmans

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 think my work is like a spiral: you keep coming back on yourself, but you're at a different place. It's like reading 'Nineteen…

— Cornelia Parker

There is a finishing point for everything, if something is crossing its limits ,understand, its about to get over.

— Senoraroy

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

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

— Michael Ondaatje

My work is on the one hand laboured, and on the other completely happenstance and intuitive.

— Ellen Gallagher

I don't think there's any single finished point for a work. It's done when something's happening with the work that feels like a balanced,…

— Jessica Stockholder

You work on something, you work on something, you keep working on it, and then, six months later, you see that you can do…

— Ben Shelton

Sometimes the only way I know how to work through something is by writing a poem. And sometimes I get to the end of…

— Sarah Kay

In my own work, I tend to cover a lot of time and to jump back and forward in time, and sometimes the way…

— Alice Munro

I want to expand the question of when something is done. I want to vex the ending. I want to mess around with that.…

— Amy Sillman

Sometimes I can spend as long revising a manuscript as I spent writing it in the first place.

— Margaret Haddix