Book Quote by Fred Saberhagen

When I first starting conceiving series like 'Courtney,' 'Polly,' 'How Loathsome,' etc., I was shooting for closed story-arcs but open-ended concepts. Then I started…

— Ted Naifeh

My books usually end where they began. I try to bring characters back to a point that is familiar but different because of the…

— Sara Zarr

The nice thing about a series is you can end on cliffhangers all the time. You can be like, 'You know what? Here we…

— Richelle Mead

Early in my career, I decided not to do sequels. I know that children enjoy them, but I valued the feeling that this was…

— Betsy Byars

In those early days, the important thing was the happy ending. I did not tolerate unhappy endings - for my heroines, anyway. And later…

— Alice Munro

I hadn’t read a real series like that since I was a kid, and it was exciting to live again in an infinite fiction.

— John Green

Even after Sword was published, I was still only thinking about the next book, Elfstones.

— Terry Brooks

I don't watch the beginnings of many series; I don't know why - maybe because I'm normally working.

— Grant Bowler

All of a sudden, I sort of started to feel that I was constrained by the characters as opposed to enjoying them. And that…

— Naomi Novik

I was a huge fan of 'Game Of Thrones.' I hadn't read the books but had watched the series from the beginning.

— Nathalie Emmanuel

There's a thing, in general, about doing any kind of series, especially when the characters remain the same, to go back and try to…

— Robert Pattinson

The main characters for 'The Seer and the Sword' made an appearance one night and then haunted me for over five years before I…

— Victoria Hanley