Ends Quote by Sophie Calle

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

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

— Kazuo Ishiguro

I like endings that let your imagination do a lot of the work.

— Matt Bomer

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

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

There are ends, occasionally, with projects. That happens. But they are natural dead ends. It's usually the outside situation that demands an ending. I…

— Aleksandra Mir

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

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

I work very deliberately, with a plan. But sometimes I come to a point that I planned as the end and it needs softening.…

— Colm Toibin

When I begin to write a story, I usually know how things will end. It's the journey toward that point I must discover. The…

— Kimberly Willis Holt

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

If you own this story you get to write the ending.

— Brené Brown