Changed Quote by Melissa Bank

All my life I thought that the story was over when the hero and heroine were safely engaged. But its a lie. The story…

— Anonymous

It's an old story, really: seduced and corrupted, in the end, by an obsessive love for the text.

— Jack O'Connell

The last paragraph, in which you tell what the story is about, is almost always best left out.

— Irwin Shaw

The story was such that I couldn't make a graceful ending and then make a graceful new beginning. I could have, but I didn't…

— Jack Vance

“A novella is a story you can read between love making, and people are reading one now.”

— R.M. Romarney

A real love story has to finish bad. That is what I think.

— Marjane Satrapi

“...that's the way to tell a true story from a made-up one. A made-up story always has a neat and tidy end. But true…

— Elspeth Huxley

The story was writing itself and I was having a hard time keeping up with it.

— Ernest Hemingway

“After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love, and I was sure this…

— Ernest Hemingway

When a man writes a romance, the woman dies. When a woman writes one, it ends all tidy and sweet.

— Julia Quinn

All that matters is the ending, it's the most important part of the story, and this one is very good. This one is perfect.

— Johnny Depp

I believe the novella is the perfect form of prose fiction.

— Ian Mcewan