Quotes about Endings

Endings to be useful must be inconclusive. Votes: 4

Endings are a part of life, and we are actually wired to execute them. But because of trauma, developmental failures, and other reasons, we shy away from the steps that could open up whole new worlds of development and growth. Votes: 4

When I did 'Scrubs', we were able to always do one as scripted, and then we got to play a little bit and do some stuff. I thought that was pretty loose, but then coming on 'Happy Endings,' it's even looser. Votes: 4

Endings are beginnings-if we allow them to be. Votes: 3

Endings are always the beginnings of something else Votes: 3

I had a very quick moment on 'Happy Endings.' Votes: 3

Endings are not always bad. Most times they're just beginnings in disguise. Votes: 3

Endings are beginnings, and beginnings are ours to turn into something good. Votes: 3

Endings must come naturally, you're supposed to let it happen, not just to make it happen like that. Votes: 3

Endings are elusive, middles are nowhere to be found, but worst of all is to begin, to begin, to begin. Votes: 3

There are no happy endings. Endings are the saddest part, So just give me a happy middle And a very happy start. Votes: 3

Endings are not our destiny...They are merely interruptions-temporary pauses that one day will seem small compared to the eternal joy awaiting the faithful. Votes: 3

Endings of television shows are sometimes such depressing things. It's like you're not going to hang out with these people anymore, and that's bad enough. Votes: 3

Happy Endings are an illusion. Real life is filled with brief moments of fleeting happiness, but ultimately every life is a tragedy that ends in death and grief. Votes: 3

I watch so much TV, it's sad. I watch 'Happy Endings', '30 Rock', 'Parks and Rec', 'The Office', 'Eagleheart', 'Children's Hospital'. 'Modern Family' I guess I'm still kinda watching. Votes: 3

Endings are the toughest, harder than beginnings. They must satisfy the expectations you have hopefully generated in your reader - not frustrate them, leave the reader grasping at elusive strings. Votes: 3

Endings are never neat, because when life goes on, there is no end. You may want to speculate about what the characters get up to afterwards, but I feel it would be presumptuous of me to dictate that. Votes: 3

Endings are like, I always say, like a women's pregnancy. When she has a child, she is happy to have the child, but there is a thing called postpartum depression, that is that she is no longer carrying the baby. Votes: 3

FlashForward' was a really fun show to make. Not to mention, I only worked, like, one day a week, and it paid the same as 'Happy Endings.' I got to make out with beautiful women on that show as well. Votes: 3

Endings are the hardest part. I find there's a great relief that at the end of every episode, every hour of TV you produce, while you want a proper and satisfying ending, it doesn't have to end The Story, in capital letters. Votes: 3

Nothing surprises me on 'Happy Endings,' because the show - I think one of the awesome things about the show is that it's so open to doing anything. We could do a genre episode. We have the green light to do whatever we want. Mostly because no one's watching. Votes: 3

True love stories never have endings. Votes: 2

The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy. Votes: 2

I'm incredibly cheesy. I'm all about happy endings and all of that. Votes: 2

That's something I think is growing on me as I get older: happy endings. Votes: 2

And in real life endings aren't always neat, whether they're happy endings, or whether they're sad endings. Votes: 2

My favorite thing about movies is the ending, and so all my favorite movies have really great endings. Votes: 2

Our culture thrives on black-and-white narratives, clearly defined emotions, easy endings, and so, this thrust into complexity exhausts. Votes: 2

I find it ironic that happy endings now are called fairytale endings because there's nothing happy about most fairytale endings. Votes: 2

Life is not so much about beginnings and endings as it is about going on and on and on. It is about muddling through the middle. Votes: 2

That's kind of the weird thing that M. Night Shyamalan has sort of unleashed upon the world is this need for every movie to have these ridiculous endings. Votes: 2

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. Otherwise, they aren't really stories. Just pages. Votes: 2

Fortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn't being applauded when you arrive - for that is common - but being missed when you leave. Votes: 2

I'm still trying to re-create a Ray Charles concert that I heard when I was fifteen years old, and all my nerve endings were fried and transformed, and electricity shot through me. Votes: 2

I've never done a film before where every single person in the audience knows the ending. I mean suspense, twists are almost impossible these days. People are blogging your endings from their cinema seats. Votes: 2

I don't believe in happy endings, but I do believe in happy travels, because ultimately, you die at a very young age, or you live long enough to watch your friends die. It's a mean thing, life. Votes: 2

Pride' is my first film with a happy ending. Before, I naively thought they were a cop-out, but now I've come to believe that happy endings and wish fulfilment are an incredibly important part of our cultural life. Votes: 2

The side of fairytales I don't like is that they always have happy endings, that there's just good and evil, and things are perfect. But life is a little more complicated, and that's what I try to teach my kids. Votes: 2

Everything has seasons, and we have to be able to recognize when something's time has passed and be able to move into the next season. Everything that is alive requires pruning as well, which is a great metaphor for endings. Votes: 2

I used to be a freelance journalist, so I had to write fast, but I always found writing nonfiction constraining. I like the freedom of fiction, where I get to invent everything, and tidy, conclusive endings are within my control. Votes: 2

Titles are important; I have them before I have books that belong to them. I have last chapters in my mind before I see first chapters, too. I usually begin with endings, with a sense of aftermath, of dust settling, of epilogue. Votes: 2

God wants us to know that life is a series of beginnings, not endings. Just as graduations are not terminations, but commencements. Creation is an ongoing process, and when we create a perfect world where love and compassion are shared by all, suffering will cease. Votes: 2

I used to feel defensive when people would say, 'Yes, but your books have happy endings', as if that made them worthless, or unrealistic. Some people do get happy endings, even if it's only for a while. I would rather never be published again than write a downbeat ending. Votes: 2

Wherever my story takes me, however dark and difficult the theme, there is always some hope and redemption, not because readers like happy endings, but because I am an optimist at heart. I know the sun will rise in the morning, that there is a light at the end of every tunnel. Votes: 2

FlashForward' was on the outs when I was approached with 'Happy Endings.' I literally got the script on a Friday, and on Saturday morning I met with David Caspe, Jamie Tarses, and the Russo brothers. I took the role on that Saturday, and on Monday I was doing a table read. It all happened very fast, but it was super exciting. Votes: 2

That's what fiction writers do: create characters and do terrible things to them for the entertainment of others. If they feel guilty enough, they write happy endings. Votes: 1

Happy endings. *Groan* Votes: 0

There are no endings. Votes: 0

I like happy endings. Votes: 0

Bad beginnings, bad endings. Votes: 0

There are no happy endings. Votes: 0

Happy endings make me puke. Votes: 0

And in stories, endings matter. Votes: 0

Happy endings are still endings. Votes: 0

Observe how endings become beginnings. Votes: 0

You want happy endings, read cookbooks. Votes: 0

Stories don't always have happy endings. Votes: 0

happy endings start with new beginnings. Votes: 0

Story book endings, fairytales coming true. Votes: 0

I don't believe in happy endings. Votes: 0

Ice is for death and endings. Votes: 0

Happy endings come in different packages Votes: 0

True enjoy stories never ever have endings. Votes: 0

Civilization creates discontents; barbarism creates quick endings. Votes: 0

Happy endings are a luxury of fiction Votes: 0

She lived in fear of ifonic endings. Votes: 0

In film, you can have sad endings. Votes: 0

A true love story has no endings. Votes: 0

..there are two possible endings to every story. Votes: 0

There are no happy endings, because nothing ends. Votes: 0

Taking chances almost always makes for happy endings. Votes: 0

The love of form is a love of endings. Votes: 0

I have an instinctual distrust of conventional happy endings. Votes: 0

What really counts are good endings, not flawed beginnings. Votes: 0

Happy endings are just stories that haven't finished yet. Votes: 0

Small beginnings are the launching pad to great endings. Votes: 0

Happy endings are bullshit. There are only happy pauses. Votes: 0

You'll only find happy endings in books. Some books. Votes: 0

And there are really never endings, happy or otherwise. Votes: 0

Unhappy endings can be as cheap as happy endings. Votes: 0

There are no happy endings there are only happy people. Votes: 0

Happy endings always made her cry. It was the relief. Votes: 0

Beginnings come at random but endings always have a reason Votes: 0

Real ugly endings are better than fake happily ever after's Votes: 0

Pawn endings are to Chess what putting is to golf Votes: 0

In my limited realm of experience, beginnings led to endings. Votes: 0

Carmen didn't like change, and she certainly didn't like endings. Votes: 0

Where are the beginnings, the endings, and most important, the middles? Votes: 0

Ireland is where strange tales begin and happy endings are possible. Votes: 0

In His plan there are no true endings. Only everlasting beginnings. Votes: 0

There are no happy endings, only breaks in the regular action. Votes: 0

So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings. Votes: 0

My horizon's have shrunk and I have only endings to write. Votes: 0

All deaths, all endings, are a path to the next beginning. Votes: 0

I know all about endings. It is beginnings that elude me. Votes: 0

If we had happy endings, we'd all be under gravestones now. Votes: 0

Princes don't come around everyday, and happy endings don't grow on trees Votes: 0

I read *old* novels. The reason is simple. I prefer proper endings. Votes: 0

Storybook endings never appear. They're just 'someone's' way of leading us here. Votes: 0

The sad part about happy endings is there's nothing to write about. Votes: 0

There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass. Votes: 0

I don't believe in happy endings but I believe in happy journeys. Votes: 0

Sometimes the kids come up with better endings than the real story. Votes: 0

Some stories don't have happy endings. Even love stories. Maybe especially love stories. Votes: 0

Partings are the beginnings of new meetings. Beginnings happen because there are endings. Votes: 0

Unity, I thought, implies the possibility of disunity. Beginnings imply and require endings. Votes: 0

A romance novel should leave readers joyous. My books all have happy endings. Votes: 0

The theatre is a tragic place, full of endings and partings and heartbreak. Votes: 0

About endings....unless we do them well, we have to keep repeating them. Votes: 0

If you like books with happy endings then put this book down immediately. Votes: 0

My parents believe in the happy endings to the stories of their children. Votes: 0

You'll never learn how to do your endings until you FINISH your endings. Votes: 0

The fact was, I didn't know if I was built for happy endings. Votes: 0

All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time. Votes: 0

That's what happens. You just get on with it. There are no endings. Votes: 0

Life isn't a fairy tale, and happy endings are few and far between Votes: 0

Yeah, I don't necessarily like endings that contrive an artificial moment of completion. Votes: 0

Beginnings are definitely the most exciting, middles are perplexing and endings are a disaster. Votes: 0

The clitoris contains 8,000 nerve endings. It makes it easy to have sex. With yourself. Votes: 0

If we told every story from the middle, we would never appreciate happy endings. Votes: 0

Our lives are our mythic journeys, and our happy endings are still to be won. Votes: 0

People who live in difficult circumstances need to know that happy endings are possible. Page 1. Votes: 0

These sudden joys have sudden endings. They burn up in victory like fire and gunpowder. Votes: 0

Happy endings are for people that can't survive the alternative. What a bunch of wimps. Votes: 0

My stories always have these twisted happy endings, and the boy always gets the girl. Votes: 0

. . . Endlessness is a really strange idea in a universe that is defined by its endings. Votes: 0

True stories seldom have endings. I don't want a happy ending, I want more story. Votes: 0

Happy endings are all I can do. I wouldn't know how to write anything else. Votes: 0

That's why love stories don't have endings! They don't have endings because love doesn't end. Votes: 0

I feel like, like pudding," Iggy groaned. "Pudding with nerve endings. Pudding in great pain. Votes: 0

Amidst the rush of worldly comings and goings, I observe how all endings become beginnings Votes: 0

When your parents split up, it's impossible to delude yourself about fairytale romance and happy endings. Votes: 0

You can write something that has continuity, but it makes happy endings all the more ridiculous. Votes: 0

I love watching movies with happy endings or anything with Steve Martin or stuff like that. Votes: 0

Mundanes who involve themselves in things they know nothing about are likely to meet unpleasant endings. Votes: 0

As a rule, pawn endings have a forced character, and they can be worked out conclusively. Votes: 0

A lot of Americans like happy endings, but life does not necessarily have a happy ending. Votes: 0

Not only are there no happy endings,' she told him, 'there aren't even any endings. Votes: 0

If you enjoy books with happy endings than you are better off reading some other book. Votes: 0

The best thing about endings is knowing that just ahead is the daunting task to start over. Votes: 0

I always begin [a novel] with outlines, but they change and so do my endings and beginnings. Votes: 0

Photographs force us to see people before their future weighed them down, before they knew their endings. Votes: 0

There are never beginnings and endings in my work; everything just fits into place after a while. Votes: 0

The worst isn't done. The worst is just beginning, and there are no happy endings. (Samuel Tarly) Votes: 0

The best way to learn endings, as well as openings, is from the games of the masters. Votes: 0

I know beginnings, I know endings too, and life-in-death, and something else I'd rather not recall just now. Votes: 0

In this life ain't no happy endings; Only pure beginnings followed by years of sinning and fake repentance. Votes: 0

Our culture thrives on black-and-white narratives, clearly defined emotions, easy endings, and so, this thrust into complexity exhausts." Votes: 0

She says that beginnings are scary, endings are usually sad, but it's the middle that counts the most. Votes: 0

I've always had a theory that some of us are born with nerve endings longer than our bodies Votes: 0

Our story may have any number of endings but its start is a singular choice we make today. Votes: 0

It cannot be too greatly emphasized that the most important role in pawn endings is played by the king. Votes: 0

I'm a hopeful romantic who adores novels with happy endings, because there are enough sad endings in real life. Votes: 0

Even the best grandmasters in the world have had to work hard to acquire the technique of rook endings. Votes: 0

I always rip out the last page of a book, then it doesn't have to end. I hate endings. Votes: 0

Happy endings were never handed out. You had to fight for them, earn them with bruised hearts and sacrifices. Votes: 0

I like colorful tales with black beginnings and stormy middles and cloudless blue-sky endings. But any story will do. Votes: 0

He believed in dreams, in endings that people told you could never happen, in disappointments reversed and luck that lasted. Votes: 0

... sometimes good people [are] helpless... terrible things happen... to good people... there [are] sad endings as well as happy ones. Votes: 0

beginnings are usually scary, and endings are usually sad, but its everything in between that makes it all worth living. Votes: 0

That's how life is. Sometimes there are happy endings, sometimes there aren't, and more often there are shades of gray. Votes: 0

I seem to have a talent for writing endings that seem just right to me but that frustrate other people. Votes: 0

There were never going to be any happy endings for me. I know that now. But that is all right. Votes: 0

It's my experience that endings are never easy, and I think I'm not alone among filmmakers or writers in this. Votes: 0

You can't just hope for happy endings. You have to believe in them. Then do the work, take the risks. Votes: 0

At this point in my life, I'm not looking for any happy endings. I'm just looking to get things started. Votes: 0

The biggest reason that positive endings don't happen is because employees are trained on policies and rules rather than principles. Votes: 0

Books ought to have good endings.How would this do: and they all settled down and lived together happily ever after? Votes: 0

I don't want to stay in the bad place, where no one believes in silver linings or love or happy endings. Votes: 0

A society that's addicted to narratives with beginnings, middles, and endings will eventually yearn to end. We just want it to end. Votes: 0

It reminded him that time was short, but that beautiful endings could still be found at the end of cold, dreary days. Votes: 0

There are no endings, and never will be endings, to the turning of the Wheel of Time. But it was an ending. Votes: 0

I always try to do true endings and that's where I got into trouble always because Hollywood wants to do happy endings. Votes: 0

Oddly, the meanings of books are defined for me much more by their beginnings and middles than they are by their endings. Votes: 0

This is a modern fairytale. No happy endings. No wind in our sails. But I can't imagine a life without. Breathless moments. Votes: 0

Maybe I'm old-fashioned. But I remember the beauty and thrill of being moved by Broadway musicals - particularly the endings of shows. Votes: 0

There are only three possible endings -aren't there? - to any story: revenge, tragedy or forgiveness. That's it. All stories end like that. Votes: 0

To love means to embrace and at the same time to withstand many endings, and many many beginnings- all in the same relationship. Votes: 0

If I've been accused a number of times of writing plays where the endings are ambivalent, indeed, that's the way I find life. Votes: 0

I believe in happy endings," I tell him, "And it feels like this movie has gone on for the right amount of time. Votes: 0

I was a mess when the movie [Into the Forest] ended and I had to say goodbye. It was one of the hardest endings. Votes: 0

they say that girls are the ones who want fairy tail endings, but then again, who are the authors of fairy tales? mostly men Votes: 0

I admire the ballad form most of all. Stories are irresistible. I've always had a passion for stories, the endings being of particular importance. Votes: 0

It is better to spend one day contemplating the birth and death of all things than a hundred years never contemplating beginnings and endings. Votes: 0

I am hopeful, though not full of hope, and the only reason I don't believe in happy endings is because I don't believe in endings. Votes: 0

You don't reach points in life at which everything is sorted out for us. I believe in endings that should suggest our stories always continue. Votes: 0

There are no such things as happy endings. Never. They're totally manufactured by fiction writers who choose to end the story on a high point. Votes: 0

If there are no endings, there are no beginnings and you see no new lands, so for everything that's lost, there is usually something gained. Votes: 0

Oh god Let all lovers be content Give them happy endings Let their lives be celebrations Let their hearts dance in the fire of your love Votes: 0

I do not know why journalists insist on calling their stuff "pieces", when they are in fact little entities, attempting to have beginnings, middles and endings. Votes: 0

Sometimes love does not have the most honorable beginnings, and the endings, the endings will break you in half. It's everything in between we live for. Votes: 0

Only bad books have good endings. If a book is any good, it's ending is always bad - because you don't want the book to end. Votes: 0

The beginnings were sweet, the endings usually bitter, but the middles were only the tightrope you walked between the one and the other. No more than that. Votes: 0

People cry at weddings for the same reason they cry at happy endings: because they so desperately want to believe in something they know is not credible. Votes: 0

The Rolling Stones are violence. Their music penetrates the raw nerve endings of their listeners and finds its way into the groove marked 'release of frustration.' Votes: 0

When you are in your teenage years you are consciously experiencing everything for the first time, so adolescent stories are all beginnings. There are never any endings. Votes: 0

'Gossip Girl' came out in rapid succession over two years, so the endings always had to be suspenseful so that you couldn't wait for the next one. Votes: 0

Gossip Girl' came out in rapid succession over two years, so the endings always had to be suspenseful so that you couldn't wait for the next one. Votes: 0

To my way of thinking, Troitzky has no peer among endgame compsers; no one else has composed so many and such varied endings of the first rank. Votes: 0

These happy endings all express the weak and sly promise that the world is not rotten and out of joint but meaningful and ultimately in excellent condition. Votes: 0

If someone does not want me it is not the end of the world. But if I do not want me, the world is nothing but endings. Votes: 0

He nods, as if to acknowledge that endings are almost always a little sad, even when there is something to look forward to on the other side. Votes: 0

All those "and they lived happily ever after" fairy tale endings need to be changed to "and they began the very hard work of making their marriages happy." Votes: 0

...one of my motivating forces has been to recreate the world I know into a world I wish I could be in. Hence my optimism and happy endings. Votes: 0

I've heard of many chocoholics, but I ain't never seen no "chocohol". We got an epidemic, people: people who like chocolate but don't understand word endings. They're probably "over-workaholled". Votes: 0

In your own life, you should take particular care with endings, for their color will forever tinge your memory of the entire relationship and your willingness to reenter it. Votes: 0

The sense of endings as well as beginnings in the air is now so obvious in so many dimensions of our experience that a critical mass has been reached. Votes: 0

Do you like foreign films?" "With subtitles?" "Yes." "I hate those types of films." "Me too," Cliff says. "Mostly because - " "No happy endings. Votes: 0

Stories without endings can do nothing but go on forever, and to be caught in one means that you must die before your part in it is played out. Votes: 0

My closet is full of sad little scripts that didn't get made that have sad endings. It's very hard to get a movie made that has a sad ending. Votes: 0

Everything has two endings- a horse, a piece of string, a phone call. Before a life, air. And after. As silence is not silence, but a limit of hearing. Votes: 0

and now we get to the hard part. the endings, the farewells, and the famous last words. if you don't hear from me often, remember that you're in my thoughts. Votes: 0

I am not a great believer in fairy tales. Every woman should fight hard for her own happy endings. Although occasionally it is nice to wake up as a princess. Votes: 0

Happy ending are only a pause. There are three kinds of big endings: Revenge. Tragedy. Forgiveness. Revenge and Tragedy often happen together. Forgiveness redeems the past. Forgiveness unblocks the future. Votes: 0

Falling into ruin was a bit like falling in love: Both descents stripped you bare and left you as you were at your core. And both endings are equally painful. Votes: 0

The world does not have tidy endings. The world does not have neat connections. It is not filled with epiphanies that work perfectly at the moment that you need them. Votes: 0

I tend to write my beginnings and endings first - as a cartoonist and storyteller, I couldn't sit down every day if I didn't know where the story was headed. Votes: 0

Fantasy-based ideologies invariably have neat happy endings where all the bad people and all the bad behavior goes away when the volume is turned up and enough force is applied. Votes: 0

Would you like to hear my story, Bella? It doesn't have a happy ending - but which of ours does? If we had happy endings, we'd all be under gravestones now. Votes: 0

Romantic comedies seem to take over where the fairytales of childhood left off, feeding our dreams of a soulmate; though, sadly, the Hollywood endings prove quite elusive in the real world. Votes: 0

The great miraculous bell of translucent ice is suspended in mid-air. It rings to announce endings and beginnings. And it rings because there is fresh promise and wonder in the skies. Votes: 0

My family doesn't do happy endings. We do sad endings or frustrating endings or no endings at all. We are hardwired to expect the next interruption or disappearance or broken promise. Votes: 0

What I had mastered was fly-fishing Rule # 1: Remove all hooks from soft tissue under water, where near-freezing temperatures anesthetize exposed nerve endings and you can't hear your fellow anglers' hysterical laughter. Votes: 0

I'd love for readers to read what books are about so that if they are expecting happy endings in dark horror novels, they won't reach for the Vallium or something worse! Votes: 0

There is something deep within us that sobs at endings. Why, God, does everything have to end? Why does all nature grow old? Why do spring and summer have to go~? Votes: 0

One way to be aware of it, to teach to yourself, is simply to read work aloud. I love reading the endings of books aloud when I start nearing the end. Votes: 0

You must learn to stop thinking in terms of beginnings and endings, successes and failures, and begin to treat everything in your life as a learning experience instead of a proving one. Votes: 0

The priceless lesson in the New Year is that endings birth beginnings and beginnings birth endings. And in this elegantly choreographed dance of life, neither ever find an end in the other. Votes: 0

Why then you're as mad as me. No, madder. For I distrust 'reality' and its moron mother, the universe, while you fasten your innocence to fallible devices which pretend at happy endings. Votes: 0

The tragedies of our past are the stepping stones for us to reach the happy endings of our tomorrows. Guilt is not going to help you become a better person. Acceptance will. Votes: 0

The main thing for me is I really like strong endings. If there's a strong ending, you can take more time in the beginning, your first act can be really quite different. Votes: 0

The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy, the building of a house, the writing of a novel, the demolition of a bridge, and, eminently, the finish of a voyage. Votes: 0

If life teaches anything at all it teaches that there are so many happy endings that the man who believes that there is no God needs his rationality called into serious question. Votes: 0

Mirror sighed. "I believe everyone deserves a happily ever after. But I think that happy endings don't just happen by accident- you can't wait for one. You have to make them happen. Votes: 0

All Bette's stories have happy endings. That's because she knows where to stop.She's realized the real problem with stories - if you keep them going long enough, they always end in death. Votes: 0

I read a lot of literary theory when I was in graduate school, especially about novels, and the best book I ever read about endings was Peter Brooks' 'Reading for the Plot. ' Votes: 0

When you're writing something and you know it's good, you get flushed, you can feel the blood coursing through your veins, you feel alive, all your nerve endings stand up, something just clicks. Votes: 0

Real life's nasty. It's cruel. It doesn't care about heroes and happy endings and the way things should be. In real life, bad things happen. People die. Fights are lost. Evil often wins. Votes: 0

As Olafsson showed me, White can win... It's hard to believe. I stayed up all night analysing, finally convicing myself, and, incidentally, learning a lot about Rook and Pawn endings in the process. Votes: 0

It's lonely to say goodbye. Very lonely. Partings are the beginnings of new meetings. Beginnings happen because there are endings"¦Meetings. Beginnings. It's not too late"¦to believe in them after the fact. Votes: 0

In life, the number of beginnings is exactly equal to the number of endings ... In poetry, the number of beginnings so far exceeds the number of endings that we cannot even conceive of it. Votes: 0

Fatigue is your friend. Through exhaustion and through people just being so depleted, the stuff around the nerve endings gets worn away and other things begin to emerge and you take way bigger risks. Votes: 0

People generally like happy endings, which is something I learned from my years in advertising. I like happy endings myself, but only if they're honest. I'm just as happy with a terrible, hopeless ending. Votes: 0

I try to have reasonably happy endings because I would hate any child to be cast down in gloom and despair; I want to show them you can find a way out of it. Votes: 0

I will tell you what is my overriding perception of the last twenty years: that we are a civilization careening toward a succession of anticlimaxes "“ toward an infinity of unsatisfying, and disagreeable endings. Votes: 0

All Hollywood endings - the bad endings have to be the bad guys to be falling about 50 stories to his death and you have to see his eyeballs as he goes to his doom. Votes: 0

The endings for all my characters seem sufficiently human and messy for me to feel comfortable with them. In some ways they have only moved an inch, but sometimes an inch is a great distance. Votes: 0

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 endings. The final ending is usually arrived at simply by intuition. Votes: 0

Ninety percent of the book variations have no great value, because either they contain mistakes or they are based on fallacious assumptions; just forget about the openings and spend all that time on the endings. Votes: 0