Beginnings and endings Quote by Miriam Toews

I let myself go at the beginning and write with an easy mind, but by the time I get to the middle I begin…

— Anton Chekhov

There are never beginnings and endings in my work; everything just fits into place after a while.

— Bruce Gilden

Happy endings are all I can do. I wouldn't know how to write anything else.

— Julia Quinn

When you finally start to write something, do not let yourself stop...even when you are convinced it's the worst garbage ever. This is the…

— Jodi Picoult

Writing is not what you start. It's not even what you finish. It's what you start, finish, and put out there for the world…

— Nell Scovell

I always begin [a novel] with outlines, but they change and so do my endings and beginnings.

— Sefi Atta

My own way of writing is very meditated and, despite my reputation, rather slow-moving. So I do spend a good deal of time contemplating…

— Joyce Carol Oates

Beginnings are usually scary and endings are usually sad, but it's the middle that counts. You have to remember this when you find yourself…

— Sandra Bullock

I knew I wanted to write novels, but I could not finish what I started. The closer I got, the more ways I'd find…

— Steven Pressfield

Everybody can write a beginning and an ending, but to actually define that middle point where everything will go from professional to person, where…

— Tobias Lindholm

I basically have two ways I start writing. Either I'll start with something about myself, or something that happened to me that seemed important,…

— Chelsea Martin

Endings are elusive, middles are nowhere to be found, but worst of all is to begin, to begin, to begin.

— Donald Barthelme