Behinds Quote by Etgar Keret

I think that the way that I write stories is by instinct. You have some basic ideas - a character, or an image, or…

— Dan Chaon

When I start writing, my unconscious, my conflicts, my thoughts all start to come up. So for me, writing is an exploration. I never…

— Janet Fitch

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 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

When I begin to write a story, I usually know how things will end. It's the journey toward that point I must discover. The…

— Kimberly Willis Holt

Writing is always a process of discovery—I never know the end, or even the events on the next page, until they happen. There’s a…

— Kim Edwards

If I didn't know the ending of a story, I wouldn't begin. I always write my last lines, my last paragraph first, and then…

— Anonymous

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

I do always know where I'm going in my books. I know the endpoint. I've written only two thousand words of my next novel…

— Jonathan Trigell

If you own the story you get to write the ending

— Anonymous

I don't always, or even usually, read stories from beginning to end. I start anywhere and proceed in either direction. A story is not…

— Alice Munro

All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them.

— Isabel Allende