Easier Quote by John Irving

After you finish a book, the story still goes on in your mind. You can never change the beginning. But you can always change…

— Sarah Addison Allen

I never start a section of the story without knowing how it will end. I also consciously try to shape the story as though…

— Dave Barry

I'm one of those people who think that stories should have a beginning, a middle and an end, and then they're over, and then…

— Jim Butcher

The stories tend to be what I work on when I'm stuck. Something will just pop into my head and I'll think that's more…

— Jess Walter

The unfolding of a story is both as exciting and as difficult for each and every novel I've written, regardless of time and place.

— Rose Tremain

It's amazing how much the sense of telling a story with a beginning, middle, and end helps me to relax. I find that the…

— Mark Rylance

What I want to write about has changed somewhat, and the scope of the storytelling has changed accordingly.

— Terry Brooks

Although when I start a novel I know how it will begin and end, I like to let the people within the story take…

— Cecelia Ahern

With me, a story usually begins with a single idea or mental picture. The writing of the story is simply a matter of working…

— William Faulkner

I actually feel that the different kinds of stories come out of different parts of my brain.

— Elizabeth Moon

When I begin to write a story, I usually know how things will end. It's the journey toward that point I must discover. The…

— Kimberly Willis Holt

When you try to bring a story to life, it starts in your head and you see possibilities for it, but it's just one…

— Tom Hanks