Book Quote by Scott Spencer

I have an idea of how the book will finish up, but it very rarely finishes up the way that I think it's going…

— Stephen King

I usually have a sense of where my characters are personally and ways in which they might transform throughout the novel. But I never…

— Lisa Lutz

I do always know where I'm going in my books. I know the endpoint. I've written only two thousand words of my next novel…

— Jonathan Trigell

After you finish a book, the story still goes on in your mind. You can never change the beginning. But you can always change…

— Sarah Addison Allen

If you are going to make a book end badly, it must end badly from the beginning.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

You start at the stupid end of the book, and if you're lucky you finish at the smart end.

— Salman Rushdie

But then of course you reach a point where you have to say, I've got to figure out how this book's going to end.…

— Anthony Doerr

I like to think the endings of all my books are open to interpretation.

— Jane Green

I don't see how anybody starts a novel without knowing how it's going to end. I usually make detailed outlines: how many chapters it…

— John Barth

Don't back to a book, if you already know how its going to end

— Anonymous

I like in books when we start the book and you really don't know how it's going to turn out.

— Cassandra Clare

The book doesn't end when you finish writing it.

— Claire Tomalin