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To be true to life, a novel must have an ending that is inevitable given the specific personalities of the characters involved. The novelist…

— Joyce Carol Oates

We speak of stories ending, when in truth it is we who end. The stories go on and on.

— Jacqueline Carey

We are all the main characters in our stories so we should right the ending of how it should be ourselves.

— Anonymous

“Since there is no script, and since humans fulfil no role in any great drama, terrible things might befall us and no power will…

— Yuval Noah Harari

You don't always have to have the ending, but you want to have a satisfactory conclusion.

— Barry Levinson

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

— Julian Barnes

“A farce or comedy is best played; a tragedy is best read at home.”

— Abraham Lincoln

No, you don't have to start your play with a premise. You can start with a character or an incident, or even a simple…

— Lajos Egri

“All the rest of the nonsense a story requires is just a long seduction of the ending. You throw out murders and reversals and…

— Catherynne M. Valente

Don't mistake a good setup for a satisfying conclusion - many beginning writers end their stories when the real story is just ready to…

— Stanley Schmidt

There's almost always a point in a book where something happens that triggers the rest of the plot.

— Jonathan Carroll

“Logic founded on passions reverses the traditional sequence of reasoning and places the conclusion before the premises.”

— Albert Camus