There is a place called ‘heaven’ where the good here unfinished is completed; and where the stories unwritten, and the hopes unfulfilled, are continued. We may laugh together yet.
I have told many, yet when I go down that last trail, I know there will be a thousand stories hammering at my skull, demanding to be told.
When we used to walk to school, I used to read off the walls, graffiti and stuff, everything. I used to write stories, but I'd never finish them. I wrote poems.
Someday I'll be remembered for The phone calls I never made Letters I never mailed And the stories I never finished telling anyone.
After each of my books about the war has appeared, I thought it might be the last, but I've stopped saying that to myself. There are just too many stories left to tell - in fact, more all the time.
Graveyards are filled with books that were never written, songs that were never sung, words that were never spoken, things that were never done.
I do so hate finishing books. I would like to go on with them for years.
Lots of shows get cancelled, and then they never get to end their stories. It's just over.
I won't leave any unfinished manuscripts.
Stories without endings can do nothing but go on forever, and to be caught in one means that you must die before your part in it is played out.
I never finished any of my early stories. They were all beginnings, an endless number of beginnings.
I am a passionate nonfinisher. Life is too short, and there are too many great books to read, so if I lose interest or respect, I switch. But when, of course, when you really fall in love with a book, all the others are ignored.
It's easier to come up with new stories than it is to finish the ones you already have. I think every author would feel that way.
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.
The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to read.
The dumbest childhood vow I ever made was to finish every book I started.
There are more books in the world than hours in which to read them. We are thus deeply influenced by books we haven't read, that we haven't had the time to read.
For our stories are not yet finished, and perhaps will never be.
What is buried in the past of one generation falls to the next to claim.
The stories from 1975 on are not finished and there is no resolve. I could spend 50 hours on the last 25 years of jazz and still not do it justice.
Every station I was at, I never said goodbye - when I was in Detroit, Cleveland, Buffalo, Oakland, and L.A. I don't know why.
I have so many books that are sitting around half-read.
I read 'Treasure Island' for the first time at university. And I started to notice then how unresolved some things were. Later, I realised that Stevenson was interested in sequels, and I wondered whether he would have gone back to it had he lived longer.
Usually, if I can't fall asleep, you will find me catching up on a good book or zoning out with an episode of 'The Real Housewives.' I always have a couple books on my bedside table in various stages of completion.
And I used to write novels and little stories and compositions and I - but I put them away because I started acting when I was 17. So there wasn't much time.
