Characters-in-novels Quote by Dodie Smith I Capture the Castle

“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

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

— Darcey Steinke

“...it's possible to have a happy ending, even if the ending isn't what you imagined.”

— Natalie Lloyd

“You know how it feels to think you've ruined everything. You're hoping if my story has a happy ending there's hope for yours too...”

— C.J. Redwine

“Every story, no matter how different, was about her; except I got to write the happy ending I didn’t get to live.”

— Bobby Underwood

“...my novels are like life - I never know where they're going until I get to the end...”

— John Geddes A Familiar Rain

“A Seer dreams of all kinds of endings, but never a happy one for herself.”

— Emm Cole

“...sometimes the happiest ending isn't the one you keep longing for, but something you absolutely cannot see from where you are.”

— Shauna Niequist

“I still want to believe that somewhere, somehow, there is a happy ending for every story. It all depends on how thoroughly you look…

— John Pielmeier

“If you want a happy ending, it depends on where you stop the story”

— Orson Welles