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Quotes About Ending

As a writer, you're making a pact with the reader; you're saying, 'Look, I know and you know that if this book was really a murder investigation, it would be a thousand pages long and would be very dull, and you would be very unhappy with the ending.'
~ Mark Billingham
The unionists also for their part, want to minimise the potential for change, not only on the equality agenda but on the issues of sovereignty and ending the union.
~ Gerry Adams
As we began working toward the finale of 'Lost,' I knew there was no possible ending that was going to be universally loved, and I accepted that. We ended the story the way we wanted it to end, and we stand by it. On my Twitter feed, I still get ten to fifteen positive comments for every negative one.
~ Carlton Cuse
If the final chapter of your life story is written by love, you are guaranteed a happy ending.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
I wasn't ready for 'Bright Star' to end when it did.
~ Carmen Cusack
People put so much effort into starting a relationship and so little effort into ending one.
~ Marina Abramovic
The officials failed to see the danger. The photo opportunity with Diana sitting sadly alone outside the world's most famous monument to love was laden with ironic potential. But only Diana knew that she was about to publish a tale of cruelty and neglect. Now the woman who had dreamed of marrying a Prince was happy for the world to see that the fairytale had no happy ending. Judy
~ Tim Clayton
'Mud' was a depository for a little more nostalgia and just a different kind of feeling, a different kind of mood. Something that's not so dark. Something that does actually have a happy ending and is a little more hopeful.
~ Jeff Nichols
A novel with a bad middle is a bad book. A bad ending is something I've just gotten in the habit of forgiving.
~ Lev Grossman
At a certain point my novels set. They set just as hard as that jam jar. And then I know they are finished.
~ Ivy Compton-Burnett
I mean ESPN plucked me out of nowhere and I'm forever grateful for the opportunity. I don't love the way it ended. But I'm not a grudge-holder.
~ Colin Cowherd
I have again decided to leave my cultural obligations and music to enter the political arena this time to contribute with all my force to ending, once and for all, the PASOK state.
~ Mikis Theodorakis
Luego pensamos que un buen relato debe tener un comienzo infantil, un desarrollo terrorífico como una pesadilla y un final amargo como una historia de amor que termina en una separación.
~ Orhan Pamuk
The opposite of the happy ending is not actually the sad ending--the sad ending is sometimes the happy ending. The opposite of the happy ending is actually the unsatisfying ending.
~ Orson Scott Card
This would not have a happy ending. So Ender decided that he'd rather not be the unhappiest at the end.
~ Orson Scott Card
If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
~ Orson Welles
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is by far the best ending for one.
~ Oscar Wilde
This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but an elopement.
~ Connie Willis
for a thing once set in motion has no ending in this world until the last witness has passed
~ Cormac McCarthy
No, the story much have a happy ending. It wouldn't be right otherwise! She had never liked sad stories.
~ Cornelia Funke
And then her voice could help this story to find a good ending at last.
~ Cornelia Funke
You wanted something to happen, right? " Rick says. "For all of this to be leading up to something? Closure," Rick says, pointing at the manila envelope. "That is definitely one way to have closure." "I didn't say I wanted closure. Drama. I said I wanted drama." "What do you think drama is, Murray?" "How about something more open-ended?" "Oh sure, that can be arranged, too," Rick says. "But even open-ended stories have to end at some point, right? Open endings, after all, are still endings.
~ Charles Yu
Time is the best author. It always writes the perfect ending.
~ Charlie Chaplin
Our relationship finally ended when he took to waking me up in the wee hours of the morning when he would go surfing. He thought it might be fun to have me come watch. "Fun for who?" I wanted to ask. I had never asked him to come to Happy Hour and watch me drink.
~ Chelsea Handler