Able Quote by Veena Sud

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

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

— Damon Lindelof

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

Yeah, I don't necessarily like endings that contrive an artificial moment of completion.

— Daniel Clowes

I never know what I'm going to write next. If I'm still writing the book but I'm very near the end, and I begin…

— Elmore Leonard

In the planning stage of a book, don't plan the ending. It has to be earned by all that will go before it.

— Rose Tremain

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

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

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

When you're writing a story, you're creating something of an artificial ending.

— Mary Gaitskill

Endings must come naturally, you're supposed to let it happen, not just to make it happen like that.

— Barry Harris

When I am writing, I focus one hundred percent on my writing. Then, by the time I'm half way through the book, I'm already…

— Anita Desai