Book Quote by Lisa Lutz

I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.

— V. S. Naipaul

I had this really great amazing thing happen where I almost finished the book and I really needed to come up with an ending…

— Cory Doctorow

I've started many novels, and they all ended on page seven.

— Grace Paley

As soon as I finished the first book, I wrote a second, which I hope to sell this year, and I have just about…

— Richard Helms

I've decided I don't like books that end with 'The End'. The fact that there are no more pages, suggests to me that the…

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

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

— Jane Green

My main disappointment was always that a book had to end. And then what? But I don't think I was ever disappointed by the…

— Eudora Welty

Having placed in my mouth sufficient bread for three minutes' chewing, I withdrew my powers of sensual perception and retired into the privacy of…

— Flann O'Brien

The Swords were still interesting but by then a cast of characters had started to appear and go on from book to book, and…

— Fred Saberhagen

I have to admit that I was terrified of ending the book, precisely because I go around saying about pretty much every book I…

— Karan Mahajan

When I started 'City of Bones,' I knew exactly what was going to happen in 'City of Glass.' When I first started the six-book…

— Cassandra Clare

The door of the novel, like the door of the poem, also shuts. But not so fast, nor with such manic, unanswerable finality.

— Sylvia Plath