When I FINISH a PAINTING, it usually LOOKS as SURPRISING to me as to anyone ELSE.

I now can be sure that, once I start WRITING a book, I'll be ABLE to finish it. I've ALSO become more assured about my 'voice' as a writer and being able to keep the characters TRUE to themselves.

It's the job that's NEVER started as takes LONGEST to FINISH.

I LOOK at whatever the finish LINE is for the character and then KIND of act backwards from that and PLAY him in such a way so that that finish line is more rewarding.

When I finish dressing before a night out and have put on all the ACCESSORIES, I usually look at myself in the mirror LONG and hard and then end up removing SOMETHING. WHETHER it's a belt, bracelet or a bauble, less is always more.

We are America, SECOND to NONE, and we own the FINISH line. Don't forget it.

When you are WRITING and DIRECTING and producing, there is a LOT of STUFF to do. I LIKE to finish one; then while I am editing, I will think of the next one.

That's one THING you learn in SPORTS. You don't GIVE up; you fight to the FINISH.

I once tried to write a novel about REVENGE. It's the only BOOK I didn't finish. I couldn't GET into the MIND of the person who was plotting vengeance.

I never finished the 'Large Glass' because, after working on it for eight years, I probably got INTERESTED in SOMETHING else; also, I was TIRED. It may be that, subconsciously, I never intended to finish it because the word 'finish' implies an ACCEPTANCE of TRADITIONAL methods and all the paraphernalia that accompany them.

There are times when one would like to HANG the WHOLE HUMAN race, and finish the FARCE.

I always BACK myself as a finisher, but I always practise it as well. Every type of FINISH: LEFT foot, right foot, headers, penalties, FREE kicks.

I STARTED WRITING at the kitchen table after MIDNIGHT. It took ten months to finish that first book; I sent it to a publisher and I got some kind of prize, so it was like a DREAM - I was SURPRISED to find it happening.

We're living proof that NICE guys ALWAYS FINISH LAST.