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“And giving it a happy ending, when all know that tales never end, and the happy ending is but a moment to catch one’s…

— Robin Hobb

“I thought of happy endings, how novelists usually flinched. To admit your characters are doomed means you are too.”

— Darcey Steinke

“And like every ending, it was a strange mix of exuberance and sorrow.”

— Jennifer E. Smith

“A plot, whether abandoned by a reader or pursued rapturously, remains itself, and gets where it is headed even if nobody is looking.”

— Gregory Maguire

“Romantic haste in drama brings tears and sighs when the hero dies but the curtain fall is final when in life we take the…

— C.P. Klapper

“I hope you come to hear the tale, and not just munch your way through the pages to the ending…endings are heartless. An ending…

— Stephen King

“The cruel-hearted love upon the wind and dash feelings until none are left.”

— Joel T. McGrath

“Shared memories; triumphs and tragedies; the heroine doing right in the end despite temptation—all the plots of all the movies I’ve written tangled together…

— Melanie Benjamin

“I get the feeling I do on finishing a novel with a brick-wall happy ending - I mean the kind of ending when you…

— Dodie Smith

“A brief rustling that broke off short, as if startled at itself, then deadly silence, that agonising, watchful hush, fraught with its own betrayal,…

— Gustav Meyrink

“There's a story unfolding with a definite beginning and an eventual end, and even though we can't begin to imagine what the whole plot…

— Ann Tatlock

“Amidst the worldly comings and goings, observe how endings become beginnings.”

— Lao Tzu