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You don't reach points in life at which everything is sorted out for us. I believe in endings that should suggest our stories always…

— Lauren Oliver

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

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

Because I think of novels as collaborative enterprises between the writer and the reader, all of my novels so far have ending with endings…

— Emily Barton

If I didn't know the ending of a story, I wouldn't begin. I always write my last lines, my last paragraph first, and then…

— Anonymous

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

I like to think the endings of all my books are open to interpretation.

— Jane Green

I usually have a general idea of where the story is going, but I try to avoid planning in too much detail. The best…

— Karl Iagnemma

I never know what I'm going to write next. If I'm still writing the book but I'm very near the end, and I begin…

— Elmore Leonard

I try every time for a project to have a natural ending. As much as I can, I try to follow the story and…

— Sophie Calle

Probably a good idea, let me know how it ends" "I already know how it ends" "You read the ending first?" "I always read…

— Jayne Ann Krentz

When the ending finally comes to me, I often have to backtrack and make the beginning point towards that ending. Other times, I know…

— Said Sayrafiezadeh