Quote by Joseph McElroy

“I wonder what it was all for and consider the idea that once you stop thinking about something, it disappears.”

— Michelle Kuo

“This is what you must remember: the ending of one story is just the beginning of another.”

— N.K. Jemisin

“I never worry about “thinking up” an idea for a story. I watch the people around me. Each one is a story.”

— Marion Reidel

“But it’s hard to say where experience ends and imagination begins. The story is by no means a true story. But the feelings in…

— Arundhati Roy

“...and, to the very end, lack imagination and miss the better story.”

— Yann Martel

“I am trying not to think of what will happen next. I am trying not to think of endings.”

— David Levithan

“So with that thought, I begin again—thinking to myself that sometimes . . . the only real thing is now.”

— Suzanne Young

“I did not want to tell her what happened, but I had to now. I could not stop talking because now I had started…

— Chris Cleave

“You think you know how a story begins, or how it's going to turn out, especially when it's your own. You don't.”

— Edan Lepucki

“And what is your story? someone interrupts. What did you do to end up in this endless community of minds?”

— Joseph McElroy

“How do you know where a story begins?”

— Carolee Dean

“The thing is you cannot imagine what is going to happen next. If you're imagining it - it's from your imagination.”

— Art Hochberg