I cannot start a story or chapter without knowing how it…

I think that any good storytelling lends itself to closing a chapter but also knowing that there's a few more volumes beyond that to…

— Milo Ventimiglia

“An act of generosity rarely ends a man's responsibilities toward another; it tends instead to begin them.”

— Amor Towles

There are two ways of knowing if something ends badly: If you're honest with yourself, you just kind of know it. And then there's…

— Vince Gilligan

The relationship starts without knowing, ends ups with nothing...

— Page Six

You were never part of the whole story, you were only a chapter. I would like to rip out the pages but without them,…

— Nishan Panwar

“Do not judge my story by the chapter you walked in on.”

— Kiran MIB

Every love is a story that's one chapter short of a book you cannot read.

— Colby Tatem

In life, every ending is just the start of another story.

— Julian Barnes

What happens in animation is that you don't really start the story until you're boarding it, which usually means that you've gotta go through…

— Doug Sweetland

The last story you should write is the most important story. You should start with a story that is just an amusing, entertaining, fun…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Notice how every science fiction movie or television show starts with a shot of the location where the story is about to occur. Movies…

— David Gerrold

I don't necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that's most vivid in my…

— Beverly Cleary

If you haven't got an idea, start a story anyway. You can always throw it away, and maybe by the time you get to…

— William Campbell Gault

“But you'll never have your happy ending unless you're brave enough to open the book and start your story.”

— L.B. Simmons

I don't start a story until I know where it's going to end.

— Brian K. Vaughan