Closure Quote by Garth Ennis

I don't see novels ending with any real sense of closure.

— Michael Ondaatje

I think that any good storytelling lends itself to closing a chapter but also knowing that there's a few more volumes beyond that to…

— Milo Ventimiglia

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

I don't necessarily believe that stories need closure. I just believe they need a beginning, middle, and end, but the end doesn't have to…

— Karyn Kusama

There is a value to moving more slowly through a story.

— Christopher Bollen

Pacing has become more important than ever, largely because of other media. I've always tried to start my stories out with a bang, something…

— Will Hobbs

The only way I could finish a book and get a plot was just to keep making it longer until something happens.

— Nelson Algren

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

It is my feeling that a story is not finished until it is read, and that the reader finishes it through his or her…

— Annie Proulx

“Ending a series is a difficult one …where should a story that you have followed for so long end? When do you step away…

— Shandy L. Kurth

The thing with being on a series that runs that long is that the writers run out of things to do.

— Ted Shackelford

It is my feeling that a story is not finished until it is read, and that the reader finishes it through his or her…

— Annie Proulx