Complicated Quote by Miriam Shor

I love intricate plotting and exciting twists, but I realize more that people enjoy a good story in a simple, focused way.

— Evan Daugherty

I think a lot of people want stories or lives to have very distinct beginnings, middles, and endings. Generally, I think things are a…

— Carrie Brownstein

It's amazing how much the sense of telling a story with a beginning, middle, and end helps me to relax. I find that the…

— Mark Rylance

I usually have a general idea of where the story is going, but I try to avoid planning in too much detail. The best…

— Karl Iagnemma

I often find that writers who disavow the importance of an ending are just not very good at endings.

— Anthony McCarten

I love the idea of stories being about great beginnings and terrible endings.

— Clive Barker

I don't like when you necessarily know that this is the end of the movie. I like when a movie ends abruptly. You go…

— Noah Baumbach

I like getting under the skin of the protagonists of every book I read, it makes the whole story so much more personal.

— Shweta Bachchan Nanda

I live in constant anticipation of good stuff. It's not being 'Pollyanna' about things, but most stories don't have the ending we would give…

— Bob Goff

I like to end stories where the readers have a little room to run. They can resolve things as they like in their own…

— Stephen King

I love my stories being multi-layered, and coming at it from different angles, so that you don't understand the film's true emotional motivation until…

— M. Night Shyamalan

We all want our stories to have happy endings. I just don't want mine to end.

— Bernajoy Vaal