Character Quote by Shannon Hale

Endings are never neat, because when life goes on, there is no end. You may want to speculate about what the characters get up…

— Stef Penney

With both novels and short stories, I think a lot in terms of character arcs, when it comes to endings.

— Laura van den Berg

I always rip out the last page of a book, then it doesn't have to end. I hate endings.

— Steven Moffat

I often find that writers who disavow the importance of an ending are just not very good at endings.

— Anthony McCarten

Stories never really end...even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page, any…

— Cornelia Funke

Usually I'll write all the way through to an end, and then I go back and try to fix the ending so that it…

— Heidi Julavits

The problem is always hard to get through for the characters in books, whether its facing another's past or accepting their mistakes. But in…

— Chloe Loizeau

The fun thing about writing a book with multiple paths and multiple endings is you really get to explore the characters and figure out…

— Ryan North

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

You don't always have to have the ending, but you want to have a satisfactory conclusion.

— Barry Levinson

If you're telling a story it's always best not to play the ending.

— John Hawkes

I think it's a bit like coming to the end of a book. The plot's in its thickest, all the characters are in a…

— Herman Wouk