Ends Quote by Lydia Davis

Writing is always a process of discovery—I never know the end, or even the events on the next page, until they happen. There’s a…

— Kim Edwards

The weird thing is that working within an established story was actually kind of liberating. You know the beginning and middle and end, more…

— Dave Eggers

When I'm putting a story together, I generally know the ending and a couple of the points halfway through, and I've got sort of…

— Alan Moore

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

You can read a dozen different textbooks or how-to manuals that will tell you the basic rules of what makes a story - a…

— Len Wein

The end of a story must be stronger rather than weaker than the beginning, since it is the end which contains the denouement or…

— H. P. Lovecraft

I don't see how anybody starts a novel without knowing how it's going to end. I usually make detailed outlines: how many chapters it…

— John Barth

For us, there's an inherent process when you're ending something to be thinking about the beginning, as writers.

— Damon Lindelof

The first paragraph. The last paragraph. That's where the story is going and how it's going to end. Or else you'll go off in…

— Hunter S. Thompson

A novel's whole pattern is rarely apparent at the outset of writing, or even at the end; that is when the writer finds out…

— Diane Johnson

Some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end.

— Gilda Radner

It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.

— Aaron Stanford