Different Quote by Hunter S. Thompson

The last paragraph, in which you tell what the story is about, is almost always best left out.

— Irwin Shaw

I don't pare down much. I write the beginning of a story in a notebook and it comes out very close to what it…

— Lydia Davis

“You don't need to know how a story ends, but how it begins. Start writing ...and the rest of the story will write itself.”

— Jason W. Blair

“You see, in every story, it’s not about the ending. It’s about the chapters in between and how you make it through them”

— Courtney Giardina

It would not be amiss for the novice to write the last paragraph of his story first, once a synopsis of the plot has…

— H. P. Lovecraft

I finish the book so I can see how it's going to end. I write that first sentence, and if it's the right first…

— Tom Robbins

“When this paragraph ends, this story is all yours.”

— Amber Dawn

I begin by writing paragraphs that don’t have an immediate relation to a plot. The sound of the story comes first.

— Grace Paley

The beginning is the word and the end is silence. And in between are all the stories.

— Kate Atkinson

You can read a dozen different textbooks or how-to manuals that will tell you the basic rules of what makes a story - a…

— Len Wein

“You see, in every story, it's not about the ending. It's about the chapters in between and how you make it through them, but…

— Courtney Giardina

“Every story has four parts - the beginning, the middle, the almost ending, and the true ending.”

— Stephanie Garber