A Quote by Larry Gelbart

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

Larry Gelbart

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Larry Gelbart
American - Writer
February 25, 1928 - September 11, 2009

When we're young, we like happy endings. When we're a little older, we think happy endings are unrealistic and so we prefer bad but credible endings. When we're older still, we realize happy endings aren't so bad after all.

Margaret Atwood

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.

Augusten Burroughs

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.

Hope Solo

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

Joe Wright

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

Shel Silverstein

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.

Marian Keyes

I keep trying to write happy endings, but my books always end on more of a bittersweet note of ambiguity.

Stephen McCauley

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

Stephen King

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

Julia Quinn

Taking chances almost always makes for happy endings.

Barbara Corcoran

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

Neil Gaiman

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

Tammara Webber

I write because it makes God happy that I write. I sing because it makes God happy that I sing. And if it makes God's people happy, then all the better. But if it fails to do so, it's probably my fault.