Books Quote by Michael Morpurgo

Wherever my story takes me, however dark and difficult the theme, there is always some hope and redemption, not because readers like happy endings,…

— Michael Morpurgo

For me, novel-writing, by its nature, contains months of feeling lost, gloomy, fatally misguided. The challenge has always been in assuring myself that by…

— Ben Dolnick

...one of my motivating forces has been to recreate the world I know into a world I wish I could be in. Hence my…

— Kristin Hunter

With my reading, I like something with quite a happy ending.

— Georgia Toffolo

Every story may not have a happy ending, but that will guide you to a wise beginning

— Ahmed Shahyn

I keep trying to write happy endings, but my books always end on more of a bittersweet note of ambiguity.

— Stephen McCauley

What if you began to expect the best from any situation? Isn't it possible that you could write new chapters in your life with…

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

I'm a hopeful romantic who adores novels with happy endings, because there are enough sad endings in real life.

— Tammara Webber

I go where the story leads. And, sometimes, it is a little bit outrageous. And I relish that. I sort of want to be…

— Stephen King

I've always thought that, as a romance writer, I had the best job in the world. I sit around all day making up emotion-drenched,…

— Ruth Glick

I love a big, character-rich story with a dark heart, with a compelling mystery or some kind of ticking clock at its center. I…

— Lisa Unger

If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

— Orson Welles