Books Quote by Anonymous

“You're writing, you're coasting, and you're thinking, 'This is the best thing I've ever written, and it's coming so easily, and these characters are…

— Jacqueline Woodson

I've decided I don't like books that end with 'The End'. The fact that there are no more pages, suggests to me that the…

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

A writer has to stand outside the page. It's not for the writer to shed tears onto the pages for these characters. It's not…

— Richard Flanagan

I think writers can get too attached to these worlds they create, these characters they make real, so that, instead of ending the story…

— Stephen Graham Jones

In my newspaper days, your endings could be literally sliced off in the composing room, so it was dangerous to get attached to them.…

— Laura Lippman

Your characters are always your children. And while you are writing, you're keeping them safe. Now they're ready to go into the world and…

— Yiyun Li

I always rip out the last page of a book, then it doesn't have to end. I hate endings.

— Steven Moffat

“All stories come to an end. That moment when we sigh and close the book, perhaps sit back in our chair and rest our…

— Mary Alice Monroe

If you are going to make a book end badly, it must end badly from the beginning.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Each book needs a good beginning and a good ending. People get pissed off when you don't close things off properly at the end.

— Patrick Rothfuss

I usually have a sense of where my characters are personally and ways in which they might transform throughout the novel. But I never…

— Lisa Lutz

There's always that relief you feel when you're working on your own series that you can actually make it to your planned ending and…

— Brian K. Vaughan