Ernest Hemingway
Novelist
"The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it."
Finishing It quotes
Finishing It
8 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
SebastiAn
Music Producer, DJ
"Oh, and one more thing: If I try something that I've never done before, something that's particularly difficult for me, and it doesn't work out, that doesn't make it a failure. The fact that I actually succeeded in finishing it makes it a huge success. Think of all the people who never even try."
Toni Morrison
Novelist, Essayist
"The best part of all, the absolutely most delicious part, is finishing it and then doing it over I rewrite a lot, over and over again, so that it looks like I never did."
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