Unfinished Ideas Quotes

As a rule, with me an unfinished [idea] is a thing that might as well be rubbed out. It's better, if there's something good in it that I might make use of elsewhere, to leave it at the back of my mind than on paper in a drawer. If I leave it in a drawer it remains the same thing but if it's in the memory it becomes transformed into something else.

I tend to [have] a lot of ideas but then just leave them in that infant form and kind of move on.

I have found that each of my books has developed out of something I have written in a previous book. Some thought evidently unfinished.

You can't die with an unfinished book.

A negative is never finished.

I won't leave any unfinished manuscripts.

I have a lot of novels that I haven't finished. I usually get 150 pages in and I realize it's not going anywhere. I don't publish everything I write. I must have six unfinished novels at least.

In the past, so many of my records, really, have been sketches for records that never really got made.

My father would often start to say something, then say 'Forget it.'

I have begun several projects which were never completed, not necessarily because they failed, but because I got interested in other things.

Some of the best songs that I know are the ones I haven't written yet, and it doesn't even matter if I don't ever write them, because it's only small potatoes compared with the big picture.