This is a never-ending story we’re involved in. We’re just…

“Two things can keep the common reader going, argument or story. (Both are always involved, however subtly, in good fiction.)”

— John Gardner

It's hard to tell the story if you're not involved yourself, emotionally.

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

We, in America, love a story - we need a story to get involved in. But then everything becomes more about how the story…

— Brad Pitt

If I didn't know the ending of a story, I wouldn't begin. I always write my last lines, my last paragraph first, and then…

— Anonymous

The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.

— Mary Catherine Bateson

Every real story is a never ending story.

— Michael Ende

Death is either an incredible ending to a story or, more often than not if you ask the right questions, it's the beginning of…

— Alex Graves

“This is what you must remember: the ending of one story is just the beginning of another.”

— N.K. Jemisin

Your future is your own again. And I consider that to be a happy ending to the story.

— Lisa Mangum

True education is a kind of never-ending story . . .

— J. R. R. Tolkien

Teaching is a never-ending story. The work is never over; the job is never done.

— Andy Hargreaves

Do not repeat chapters, for the ending of the story never changes!

— Anonymous

If it's a story I'm telling, then I have control over the ending... But if it's a story, even in my head, I must…

— Margaret Atwood

To come up with the ending to a story and then work backwards is like tying your shoe with one hand only.

— Donald McKay

Everything we do really is just a little marker on the long road to death. And sometimes that’s overwhelmingly depressing to me, and sometimes…

— Joss Whedon