Beginning writers Quote by Stanley Schmidt

All stories have a beginning, a middle and an ending, and if they're any good, the ending is a beginning.

— James Clavell

A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order.

— Jean-Luc Godard

Some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end.

— Gilda Radner

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

— Barry Levinson

A story really isn't truly a story until it reaches its climax and conclusion.

— Ted Naifeh

So many stories are determined before they start.

— Lionel Shriver

If you're gonna start a story, you start from the beginning, right?

— Luke Evans

For us, there's an inherent process when you're ending something to be thinking about the beginning, as writers.

— Damon Lindelof

I'm one of those people who think that stories should have a beginning, a middle and an end, and then they're over, and then…

— Jim Butcher

The point about a great story is that it's got a beginning, a middle and end.

— Alan Rickman

Stories work, if they have a beginning, middle and end.

— Wendell Pierce

Most of my work has no conventional narrative, so it's not essential to have a beginning and an end - your attention can flow…

— Marco Brambilla