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I really don't know what I am going to do in terms of what a book is going to be about until I actually start writing it!
Robert B. Parker
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I think I settled on the title before I ever wrote the book.


Frank McCourt
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We don't have to think up a title till we get the doggone book written.


Carl Sandburg
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When I'm writing a book, I prefer not to speak about it, because only when the book is finished can I try to understand what I've really done and to compare my intentions with the result.
Italo Calvino
I have been lucky with writers. None have been real trouble. Some I never met. Some I meet only after the book is finished, and some, the easiest to get along with, are the dead ones. Most become friends.
Michael Foreman
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I wasn't aware that 'House on Mango Street' was so influenced by Spanish until after I finished.


Sandra Cisneros
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I don't give up on commitments until what I've been asked to do is clearly finished.


Carly Fiorina
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The smartest billionaires I know never finished high school. I got my degree and my doctorate on the street and an advanced degree in jail.
Tommy Chong
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We're writing a book together. She just finished one. Did you read it? Among the Porcupines?


Walter Matthau
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You never really know baseball until you put on a pair of cleats and get out and play it; and if you play for five years, you still don't really know what it's about.
Waite Hoyt
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I had thought up the title, 'The Good Luck of Right Now,' several years ago. I had no idea what it meant or what the book would be about but I thought, 'Someday I'm going to write a book with that title.'
Matthew Quick
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The director is planning on titling the film 'Yummy Fur' so we are probably planning on changing the title of the book to 'Yummy Fur' to match the film.
Chester Brown
I had this really great amazing thing happen where I almost finished the book and I really needed to come up with an ending and I decided to go back and re-read the book and see if I could come up with an ending.
Cory Doctorow
It takes a while to get a movie together, and they don't start talking books until the movie is close to being finished.
Gregory Keyes
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I never knew how ugly and how stupid I was until, you know, we had Twitter.


Kellyanne Conway
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It isn't glamorous until after the film is finished, and you are at the premiere and getting your picture on the cover of magazines.
Taylor Hackford
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Art is never finished, only abandoned.


Leonardo da Vinci
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There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory.
Francis Drake
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I mean, the wonderful thing about writing a book is that you're getting a finished product at the end of the day. You're communicating directly with the reader.
Gary Ross
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In politics, one is never finished. Look at me!


Alain Juppe
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