Beyond Quote by Paul Di Filippo

The idea that the curtain rises on what is often more or less a happy scene, and it will fall just a few hours…

— Daniel Handler

So we face our final hours...and all that was once certain has become uncertain. Except for defeat. That, as always, is the end of…

— Tad Williams

It's the end--but the moment has been prepared for.

— Tom Baker

A society that's addicted to narratives with beginnings, middles, and endings will eventually yearn to end. We just want it to end.

— Douglas Rushkoff

“All stories come to an end. That moment when we sigh and close the book, perhaps sit back in our chair and rest our…

— Mary Alice Monroe

Probably most catastrophes end this way without an ending, the dead not even knowing how they died...,those who loved them forever questioning "this unnecessary…

— Norman Maclean

“Entertainments nearly always end with triumph or disaster - happiness achieved, or total, tragic defeat precluding any hope of it. But there is always…

— Ann Leckie

I enjoy a good cliffhanger. As a reader, I relish that nervous feeling you get when you're engrossed in a story, but in the…

— Kresley Cole

Because I think of novels as collaborative enterprises between the writer and the reader, all of my novels so far have ending with endings…

— Emily Barton

“An ending is an artificial device; we like endings, they are satisfying, convenient, and a point has been made. But time does not end,…

— Penelope Lively

The end times are here. And that is a lot, so that is why we have to do our best to stop it.

— Severn Cullis-Suzuki

“The narrative compression of storytelling, especially in the movies, beguiles us with happy endings into forgetting that sustained stress is corrosive of feeling. It's…

— Ian McEwan