Character Quote by Garry Trudeau

Happy endings are a luxury of fiction

— Trudi Canavan

There are no such things as happy endings. Never. They're totally manufactured by fiction writers who choose to end the story on a high…

— Peter David

When the writers themselves are a bit out of control, and their lives are collapsing around them, they seem to rejoice in misery and…

— John Rhys-Davies

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

Even happy situations can easily start to feel miserable. So, I think that people who consider themselves sophisticated or who are in fact sophisticated…

— Mary Gaitskill

I used to feel defensive when people would say, 'Yes, but your books have happy endings', as if that made them worthless, or unrealistic.…

— Marian Keyes

“Writers and producers know that audiences crave resolution and feel-good endings. We all do. But life is messy. And while God promises to one…

— Ramon Presson

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

— Anthony McCarten

I always try to do true endings and that's where I got into trouble always because Hollywood wants to do happy endings.

— Joe Eszterhas

It has long been a tradition among novel writers that a book must end by everybody getting just what they wanted, or if the…

— Willa Cather

Too many movies with happy endings. Too many real people with terrible endings. Don't walk away if there is a way.

— Kevin McCarty

“An author has to fit into the skin of her characters, to imagine being trapped by unfortunate and sometimes violent circumstances she herself has…

— Loretta H. Marion