“Novels are nice,' my friend said. 'They stop.' He waggled his fingers to make quotation marks in the air. 'They say, 'The End.' Very nice. A marvelous invention. Here we have stories, but never 'The End.” — Philip Gourevitch Copy Share Image
In real life, things don't all end at the nice same place. To keep the story real, there has to be kind of a ragged edge at the end of a novel. — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image