Books Quote by Stephen King

I like it when stories are left open.

— Alan Rickman

It's amazing how much the sense of telling a story with a beginning, middle, and end helps me to relax. I find that the…

— Mark Rylance

I try every time for a project to have a natural ending. As much as I can, I try to follow the story and…

— Sophie Calle

My desire as a storyteller is to always catch the readers off guard; to give them something they aren't expecting, and take them in…

— Chris Claremont

Although when I start a novel I know how it will begin and end, I like to let the people within the story take…

— Cecelia Ahern

I get tired of stories that keep going and going and never get anywhere. It's like a promise that's never fulfilled. Stories need endings.…

— Ted Naifeh

With my reading, I like something with quite a happy ending.

— Georgia Toffolo

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

I write my own stories. I like telling stories to little children. I think the good thing about stories is they carry you to…

— Georgie Henley

As a writer, I absorb stories, allow them to churn within my own head and heart - often for years - until I find…

— Walter Dean Myers

I love the idea of stories being about great beginnings and terrible endings.

— Clive Barker

You're always looking for some new way to tell the same story, but it's how they get to the happy end that is the…

— Lisa Kleypas