Books Quote by Emily Barton

My own way of writing is very meditated and, despite my reputation, rather slow-moving. So I do spend a good deal of time contemplating…

— Joyce Carol Oates

I work very deliberately, with a plan. But sometimes I come to a point that I planned as the end and it needs softening.…

— Colm Toibin

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

You don't reach points in life at which everything is sorted out for us. I believe in endings that should suggest our stories always…

— Lauren Oliver

I never know the endings when I write. It's a turnoff when you know the ending. You lose much of your incentive to write…

— Etgar Keret

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

Imbuing fiction with a life that extends beyond the last word is in some ways the goal: the ending that goes beyond the ending…

— Jeff VanderMeer

I often find that writers who disavow the importance of an ending are just not very good at endings.

— Anthony McCarten

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

When I am writing, I focus one hundred percent on my writing. Then, by the time I'm half way through the book, I'm already…

— Anita Desai

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

— Anonymous

For us, there's an inherent process when you're ending something to be thinking about the beginning, as writers.

— Damon Lindelof