Books Quote by S. E. Hinton

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

If I didn't know the ending of a story, I wouldn't begin. I always write my last lines, my last paragraph first, and then…

— Anonymous

I never know the endings when I write. It's a turnoff when you know the ending. You lose much of your incentive to write…

— Etgar Keret

When the ending finally comes to me, I often have to backtrack and make the beginning point towards that ending. Other times, I know…

— Said Sayrafiezadeh

The end of THE END is the best place to begin THE END, because if you read THE END from the beginning of the…

— Anonymous

“The end is the best part of any story”

— Michael Grant

I don't pare down much. I write the beginning of a story in a notebook and it comes out very close to what it…

— Lydia Davis

I write the last line, and then I write the line before that. I find myself writing backwards for a while, until I have…

— John Irving

Sometimes people won't even finish a piece that you wrote, because they've already decided what it is that you want to say, and generally…

— Louis Menand

It is nice when things end. That is what stories do - they end. It is hard to write endings and it is hard…

— Jon Hamm

“What's the best part about writing a book? Finishing it.”

— Rick Riordan

When I write, I never know the endings. What I think works in [my] stories is the fact that when I write, I really…

— Etgar Keret