Brutal Quote by Jack London

Happy endings are all I can do. I wouldn't know how to write anything else.

— Julia Quinn

“People are going to think I'm morbid, loving all these sad books. I actually don't mind a happy ending in a novel—certainly, it's nice…

— Anonymous

I keep trying to write happy endings, but my books always end on more of a bittersweet note of ambiguity.

— Stephen McCauley

As a literature student, I put pen to paper in times of devastating tragedy, I just try to make sense of it. Maybe I'll…

— Samuel Kermis

Look. (Grown-ups skip this paragraph) I'm not about to tell you this book has a tragic ending. I already said in the very first…

— William Goldman

“Your life isn't some prerecorded movie where, no matter how many times you watch it, the ending remains the same. Your life is a…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

In those early days, the important thing was the happy ending. I did not tolerate unhappy endings - for my heroines, anyway. And later…

— Alice Munro

“In the darkest corners of a writer’s heart, you’ll find the stories that never made it to the page, the ones too painful to…

— Dr. Nitin Chopra

Writing a novel is like childbirth: once you realize how awful it really is, you never want to do it again.

— Sarah Dessen

My writing comes not from the happy moments, but from struggle and grief.

— Isabel Allende

But, in addition, there is, all through the tragedy, a constant alternation of rises and falls in this tension or in the emotional pitch…

— Andrew Coyle Bradley