Character Quote by David O. Russell

With both novels and short stories, I think a lot in terms of character arcs, when it comes to endings.

— Laura van den Berg

Endings are never neat, because when life goes on, there is no end. You may want to speculate about what the characters get up…

— Stef Penney

But, how do you know if an ending is truly good for the characters unless you've traveled with them through every page?

— Shannon Hale

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

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

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

— Jane Green

I started thinking about the endings of novels not because I think endings are so important, but because I think they're actually not as…

— Lev Grossman

Endings are not my thing.

— Allison Pearson

I'm fond of all my characters so every time one doesn't make the cut I'm a little disappointed although I understand it.

— George R. R. Martin

Endings are not always bad. Most times they're just beginnings in disguise.

— Kim Harrison

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

— Anonymous

All endings are inexorably tied to new beginnings. That's the nature of the journey. It continues to unfold. It builds on itself. It can't…

— Melody Beattie