Backwards Quote by Donald McKay

If I see an ending, I can work backward.

— Arthur Miller

I love the way a story's ending can force you to read backwards. It's as if you are slowly adjusting a kaleidoscope until a…

— Catherine Brady

The weird thing is that working within an established story was actually kind of liberating. You know the beginning and middle and end, more…

— Dave Eggers

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

When you're writing a story, you're creating something of an artificial ending.

— Mary Gaitskill

If you own the story you get to write the ending

— Anonymous

I always know more about the ending, even the aftermath to the ending, than I know about the beginning. And so there's a construction…

— John Irving

Work extra hard on the beginning of your story, so it snares reader's instantly. And know how you're going to end your story before…

— Joan Lowery Nixon

After you finish a book, the story still goes on in your mind. You can never change the beginning. But you can always change…

— Sarah Addison Allen

In a novel, you can always go back and make it look like you knew what you were doing all along before the thing…

— Neil Gaiman

By not foretelling the ending to yourself, as a writer, you're able to open up the canvas and say, "I'm going to go here.…

— Veena Sud

We are all the main characters in our stories, so why not write the ending of how it should be ourselves...

— Anonymous