A Quote by Martine Leavitt

You, my lord, are the ending of all true stories.

Martine Leavitt

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Ending Lord Stories True

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Martine Leavitt
American - Author
Born: 1953

An ending was an ending. No matter how many pages of sentences and paragraphs of great stories led up to it, it would always have the last word.

Sarah Dessen

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

Frances Hardinge

It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life.

Max Frisch

True love never has a happy ending, because there is no ending to true love.

Alexander the Great

Stories are as unique as the people who tell them, and the best stories are in which the ending is a surprise.

Nicholas Sparks

We speak of stories ending, when in truth it is we who end. The stories go on and on.

Jacqueline Carey

All stories have a beginning, a middle and an ending, and if they're any good, the ending is a beginning.

James Clavell

I would like to believe this is a story I’m telling. I need to believe it. I must believe it. Those who can believe that such stories are only stories have a better chance. If it’s a story I’m telling, then I have control over the ending. Then there will be an ending, to the story, and real life will come after it. I can pick up where I left off.

Margaret Atwood

To be true to life, a novel must have an ending that is inevitable given the specific personalities of the characters involved. The novelist must not impose an ending upon them.

Joyce Carol Oates

While it is true that commercial art is always in danger of ending up as a prostitute, it is equally true that noncommercial art is always in danger of ending up as an old maid.

Erwin Panofsky

The stories that I want to tell, especially as a director, don't necessarily have a perfect ending because, the older you get, the more you appreciate a good day versus a happy ending. You understand that life continues on the next day; the reality of things is what happens tomorrow.

Drew Barrymore

I was reading stories by Raymond Carver and some of his stuff sort of ended abruptly here and there, where in other short stories that I've read have a bit of an ending, a climax, a twist or something like that.

Limmy

I think stories do have an ending. I think they need to have an ending eventually because that is a story: a beginning, middle and end. If you draw out the end too long, I think storytelling can get tired.

Melissa Rosenberg

When we deny our stories, They define us. When we own our stories, we get to write the ending.

Brene Brown

When the ending finally comes to me, I often have to backtrack and make the beginning point towards that ending. Other times, I know exactly what the ending will be before I begin, like with the story "A Brief Encounter With the Enemy." It was all about the ending - that's what motivated me.