I read *old* novels. The reason is simple. I prefer proper endings. — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
I like to think the endings of all my books are open to interpretation. — Jane Green Copy Share Image
“It's an Irish story, love, Mrs. Wylltson said. We don't do happy endings.” — Kersten Hamilton Copy Share Image
“The owl of Minerva begins its flight only with the coming of the dusk.” — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Happy endings are all I can do. I wouldn't know how to write anything else. — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
“Surely you know that whatever the play, the curtain always falls at the end.” — Bandi Copy Share Image
Stories without endings can do nothing but go on forever, and to be caught in one means that you must die before… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“What is it about those unresolved endings that cause you to question every decision when you're trying to move forward?” — Alfa H Copy Share Image
“True, it's not over till it's over. And even when it's over, it just begins again.” — Kate McGahan Copy Share Image
“Despite my pain, I felt not the regret of an ending, but the foreboding of a beginning.” — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
“The most important thing is this: to sacrifice what you are now for what you can become tomorrow.” — Shannon Alder Copy Share Image
I wonder why people love happy endings so much. 'cuz for me, no matter how happy the ending was, still it has… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Frederica also thought, for she had been there many times, that if this was a beginning, it was the beginning of an… — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
“Life is so utterly enraptured with beginnings that it can do little else than perpetually create space for them. And those spaces… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
People relate to things that feel real to them. All the good, happy, over-sexed and moneyed endings on TV are not the… — Anthony Edwards Copy Share Image
“There are no happy endings for such as us, Chella. No redemption. Not with our sins. Any joy is borrowed—laughter shared on… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
I usually have a general idea of where the story is going, but I try to avoid planning in too much detail.… — Karl Iagnemma Copy Share Image
“Ten times a day I am compelled to reflect on my past life ... and I can never justify to myself the… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“The problem with happy endings, is that they're either not really happy, or not really endings, you know? In real life, some… — John Green Copy Share Image
There are no happy endings, just happy days, happy moments. The only real ending is death, and trust me, no one dies… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
“So for now, I will miss you like I’ll never see you again, And the next time I see you, I will… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
I'm a firm believer in stories with arcs and beginnings and endings and all that. 'Scott Pilgrim' is sort of one long… — Bryan Lee O'Malley Copy Share Image
“That mesh of leaves and twigs of fork and froth, minute and endless, with the sky glimpsed only in sudden specks and… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“Your life is not A story But rather an assortment of small ones Some endings are happy Some, sad Others - ironic… — Joseph DiFrancesco Copy Share Image
“I am leery of suggesting the idea that endings are controllable. No one ever really has control. Physics and biology and accident… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
“This is true: if there was one thing my father taught me, it's that endings never work out the way you want… — Grant Ginder Copy Share Image
“Maybe that's why I prefer this new library to my own bedroom: looking at the million book spines, I can imagine a… — Rebecca Makkai Copy Share Image
The Russo brothers are the best people ever, and they cast me in 'Happy Endings.' I did text Joe Russo to say,… — Adam Pally Copy Share Image
“Like you, I grew up in a remote animist village. But then I went to a strict Catholic education in France. I… — Colin Cotterill Copy Share Image
“It's funny to think about endings now. Now that all there is to do is wait. Now that the real ending is… — Alexandra Coutts Copy Share Image
