Author Quote by Shandy L. Kurth

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

“Unless a story has a specific ending you know when you start it then a story is as long as a story needs to…

— Ray Daley

“If you want a happy ending, it depends on where you stop the story”

— Orson Welles

The nice thing about a series is you can end on cliffhangers all the time. You can be like, 'You know what? Here we…

— Richelle Mead

“When you close the book, does the story end? No! That's such a bland way to read. Every story goes on forever in our…

— Mizuki Nomura

I usually start with an ending, then outline high points of things that happen, and kind of make up the rest as I go…

— Julie Kagawa

The reason I never want a book to end is that I start to feel like the characters are my friends. I'll miss them…

— Miley Cyrus

“In general, I start with an idea and a general gist of how I want the story to end, and I let the characters…

— Kristi Cramer

We are all the main characters in our stories, so why not write the ending of how it should be ourselves...

— Anonymous

“Every good story needs a good ending. Don't write the beginning of a novel without knowing the end of it.”

— A.D.Y. Howle

We are all the main characters in our stories so we should right the ending of how it should be ourselves.

— Anonymous

I cannot start a story or chapter without knowing how it ends. ... Of course, it rarely ends that way.

— Kazuo Ishiguro