Ahead Quote by Heidi Julavits

I want the plot to be as complicated as possible. Usually I'll write all the way through to an end, and then I go…

— Heidi Julavits

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

When I am writing, I focus one hundred percent on my writing. Then, by the time I'm half way through the book, I'm already…

— Anita Desai

If you own the story you get to write the ending

— Anonymous

I write where I can see things happen, and then things get glued together. I do have the final scene, but that really is…

— Diana Gabaldon

If you own this story you get to write the ending.

— Brené Brown

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

I usually start with an ending, then outline high points of things that happen, and kind of make up the rest as I go…

— Julie Kagawa

If you're telling a story it's always best not to play the ending.

— John Hawkes

Though I revise constantly as I write, I will usually revise much of the work again after I've reached the ending.

— Joyce Carol Oates

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

— Nelson Algren

We are all the main characters in our stories, so why not write the ending of how it should be ourselves...

— Anonymous