About Quote by Alan Moore

I also write the last paragraph or page of a story first. That way I always know what I'm working towards.

— Truman Capote

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

I usually start with an ending, then outline high points of things that happen, and kind of make up the rest as I go…

— Julie Kagawa

When I am writing, I focus one hundred percent on my writing. Then, by the time I'm half way through the book, I'm already…

— Anita Desai

When the ending finally comes to me, I often have to backtrack and make the beginning point towards that ending. Other times, I know…

— Said Sayrafiezadeh

When I set out to write a screenplay, I have in my mind a beginning and an end but that end part continually changes…

— Christian Keiber

I don't pare down much. I write the beginning of a story in a notebook and it comes out very close to what it…

— Lydia Davis

For us, there's an inherent process when you're ending something to be thinking about the beginning, as writers.

— Damon Lindelof

I'm quite adept at writing two or sometimes even three stories at once. So if I get stuck on one story, I switch the…

— Zara Cox

Sometimes I get the start of a story from a memory, an anecdote, but that gets lost and is usually unrecognizable in the final…

— Alice Munro

I always plan the whole story in some detail, long before I start writing the actual thing. But even doing that, I find that…

— Raymond Buckland

Each story tells me how to write it, but not the one afterwards.

— Eudora Welty