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- Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends. — A. S. Byatt
- Endings are elusive, middles are nowhere to be found, but worst of all is to begin, to begin, to begin. — Donald Barthelme
- The same authorities who insist upon beginnings, middles, and ends, declare that Great Literature (by which they mean the stories they have… — Gene Wolfe
- The epic implications of being human end in more than this: We start our lives as if they were momentous stories, with… — Anatole Broyard
- What of miniature boats constructed of birch bark and fallen leaves, launched onto cold water clear as air? How many fleets were… — Paul Harding
- The beginnings were sweet, the endings usually bitter, but the middles were only the tightrope you walked between the one and the… — Robert Goolrick
- I like to tell stories that have beginnings, middles and ends. — Eric Kripke
- It is in middles that extremes clash, where ambiguity restlessly rules. — John Updike
- Oddly, the meanings of books are defined for me much more by their beginnings and middles than they are by their endings. — Lev Grossman
- There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles. — Van Morrison
- People always go on about how fantastic relationships are in the beginning, and of course everyone hates relationships when they end, but… — Mike Gayle
- I like colorful tales with black beginnings and stormy middles and cloudless blue-sky endings. But any story will do. — Katherine Applegate