Believe Quote by Greg Lake

How a piece ends is very important to me. It's the last chance to leave an impression with the reader, the last shot at…

— S. E. Hinton

Usually I'll write all the way through to an end, and then I go back and try to fix the ending so that it…

— Heidi Julavits

In the end, you have to just sit down, shut up, and write.

— Natalie Goldberg

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 seem to have a talent for writing endings that seem just right to me but that frustrate other people.

— Jonathan Dee

I write the last line, and then I write the line before that. I find myself writing backwards for a while, until I have…

— John Irving

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

Part of my mind is working on how to end the thing while I'm going on. You need at least two brains to write.

— Lydia Davis

Endings must come naturally, you're supposed to let it happen, not just to make it happen like that.

— Barry Harris

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

Take care with the end as you do with the beginning

— Anonymous

The end never comes when you think it will. It's always ten steps past the worst moment, then a weird turn to the left.

— Lena Dunham