Unfinished Tales Quotes

Painters of paintings, writers of books, never could tell the half.

I'll never live to write all the stories I have in my head.

You can't die with an unfinished book.

The only thing that infuriates me is that I have more unwritten stories in me than I can conceivably write in a lifetime.

My dad would tell me bedtime stories, and he used to always leave them open-ended and finish at a crucial point with the words, 'dream on'. Then it was my responsibility to finish the story as I was drifting off to sleep. We would call them dreaming stories.

Movies tie things up in an arbitrary length of time, but I have always liked things that aren't fully realised.

I like gaps; all my stories have gaps. It seems this is the way people's lives present themselves.

We all - in the end - die in medias res. In the middle of a story. Of many stories.