Back and forth Quote by Lynne Rae Perkins

Stories never really end...even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page, any…

— Cornelia Funke

After you finish a book, the story still goes on in your mind. You can never change the beginning. But you can always change…

— Sarah Addison Allen

Nothing moves around, it just goes straight from the start to the end. The final draft on the final day, that's it, same for…

— T.C. Boyle

I always write the end of everything first. I always write the last chapters of my books before I write the beginning....Then I go…

— Truman Capote

“When you close the book, does the story end? No! That's such a bland way to read. Every story goes on forever in our…

— Mizuki Nomura

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

— Jane Green

I have an idea of how the book will finish up, but it very rarely finishes up the way that I think it's going…

— Stephen King

The book doesn't end when you finish writing it.

— Claire Tomalin

I usually have a sense of where my characters are personally and ways in which they might transform throughout the novel. But I never…

— Lisa Lutz

In my experience, every book you write changes the conditions in which you write the next.

— Howard Jacobson

You start at the stupid end of the book, and if you're lucky you finish at the smart end.

— Salman Rushdie

It's often the case that the most strained moments in books are the very beginning and the very end - the getting in and…

— Robert Gottlieb