Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.
– Stephen King
Tag: finish
Quotable 360
When I finish a first draft, it’s always just as much of a mess as it’s always been. I still make the same mistakes every time.
– Michael Chabon
Quotable 341
Finish your book – one crappy first draft is worth more than a thousand perfect first pages.
– Delilah S. Dawson
Quotable 337
First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you’re inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won’t. Habit is persistence in practice.
– Octavia Butler
Quotable 302
Finish the damn book. Nothing else matters. Stop
second-guessing yourself and write it through to the end. You don’t
know what you have until you’ve finished it. You don’t know how
to fix it until it’s all down on the page.
– Lauren Beukes