Adjusting Quote by Catherine Brady

It's a wonderful experience to be reading a story and think you've got things all figured out, and then suddenly, it all goes upside-down…

— Fiona Barton

I hate it when people tell me the end of the story because my mother always read the last page of a novel first…

— Alice Hoffman

To come up with the ending to a story and then work backwards is like tying your shoe with one hand only.

— Donald McKay

Usually I'll write all the way through to an end, and then I go back and try to fix the ending so that it…

— Heidi Julavits

I like to think the endings of all my books are open to interpretation.

— Jane Green

I always write the end of everything first. I always write the last chapters of my books before I write the beginning…Then I go…

— Truman Capote

When I write, I never know the endings. What I think works in [my] stories is the fact that when I write, I really…

— Etgar Keret

I try every time for a project to have a natural ending. As much as I can, I try to follow the story and…

— Sophie Calle

I like to read the ending first.

— Melissa Marr

Stories took twists and turns down fairy-tale paths or down very human everyday ones. You think you’re at the end of the book, and…

— Deb Caletti

I love the idea of stories being about great beginnings and terrible endings.

— Clive Barker

Sometimes I'll see something to the end of it because I want the story.

— Molly Gordon