Book Quote by L.B. Simmons

“If you want a happy ending, it just depends on where you close the book!”

— Orson Welles

“...not all stories have happy endings; but that doesn't mean they're not worth the read.”

— Cassia Leo

“A happy ending is just the place where you choose to stop telling the story.”

— Leah Stewart

“I thought of happy endings, how novelists usually flinched. To admit your characters are doomed means you are too.”

— Darcey Steinke

“Every good story needs a good ending. Don't write the beginning of a novel without knowing the end of it.”

— A.D.Y. Howle

“If you want a happy ending, it depends on where you stop the story”

— Orson Welles

“I hope it did not end happily? I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much.”

— Oscar Wilde

“I was learning that happily-ever-after was the beginning of the next chapter, not the end of the story.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton

“Write the ending first and then you'll know before the opening sentence that it's going to be a good book.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“. . . you don’t need a happy ending to move onto a happy beginning.”

— Krystal McLean

If you want a happy ending, learn to open up, because no one can finish a story with a closed book.

— Nishan Panwar

“You never finish a book. You only abandon it.”

— Peter Watts