Quotes About Ending

Stories make sense when so much around us is senseless, and perhaps what makes them most comforting is that while life goes on and pain goes on, stories do us the favor of ending.

You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.

I want an ending when the woman is happy instead of good.

Yes—what the American public always wants is a tragedy with a happy ending.

If in this life only we have hope....." By God, that was true, too. This quickening divine power that he had experienced could not be confined to this world, for cruel, sordid, ugly, devilish can be this world, and by the nature of things that power could have neither source nor ending in it; only flow through it, around it, over it, under it, gathering up the gold into its eternal shining and burning the dross in its fire.

Una vida, la suya, que tal vez algún día acabara por pasarle la factura de modo implacable, toc, toc, toc, señor Falcó, le toca a usted abonar los gastos. Hasta aquí hemos llegado. Fin de la fiesta. En

You were everything, everything that I wanted. We were meant to be, supposed to be, but we lost it. And all of the memories, so close to me, just fade away. All this time you were pretending. So much for my happy ending.

So many times in television, you get cancelled arbitrarily as a result of your ratings in the off season, and you don't have an opportunity to really script your ending, which can leave it an unsatisfying situation for both participants and the audience.

How a piece ends is very important to me. It's the last chance to leave an impression with the reader, the last shot at 'nailing' it. I love to write ending lines; usually, I know them first and write toward them, but if I knew how they came to me, I wouldn't tell.

It's interesting that so many books now are published as the first in a series. It never occurred to me. Although 'The Giver' does have an ambiguous ending. I've heard about that from readers over the years.

My first real job lasted for three years. It ended the day I was unceremoniously fired.

I think that you're supposed to know when it's time to say goodbye.

In a film, you only have a finite amount of time, and you're so concerned with saying what happened and making it a gripping short story with a satisfying ending.

If you're successful, 'Blue Shift' has what many have called the most satisfying 'Half-Life' ending yet.

A comedy isn't about being funny, said Mrs. Baker. We talked about this before. A comedy is about character who dare to know that they may choose a happy ending after all. That's how I know. Suppose you can't see it? That's the daring part, said Mrs. Baker.

We all have different thresholds for sentimentality. For me, it's a hard won happy ending.

A better ending could not have been scripted. Of course, if we had won, that would have been better.

The last episode of Dallas was in '1991.' Unfortunately, it was a terrible episode to end the show on: it was a sort of 'It's a Wonderful Life' with Larry as the Jimmy Stewart character. In that episode, I was an ineffectual-schlep kind of brother, who got divorced three or four times and was a Las Vegas reject.

Everything you write makes you better. But if you really need a tip, here's one: a good story begins in opposition to its ending. That means you work out how it finishes first, and then begin the story as far away from that point - in terms of character development - as you can.

As the war on terrorism spreads and prolongs, the fruits of ending the threat of terrorism around the world will be tempered with a whole new series of problems to be addressed and resolved.

I ended my journey with 'Balika'... on a good note, but I've been hearing that I threw tantrums on the set and had an attitude problem.

When it's my last year, I'll probably let people know when that last pitch is thrown and say thanks and walk away.

I was always intrigued with European cinema, and hated most American cinema. I didn't like the one, two, three - boom! style, with a neat and tidy ending. That was never my scene.

Summer's ending and the closest thing I've had to an adventure was a Google search of Baja California.