A Quote by Orson Welles

If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

Orson Welles

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Orson Welles
American - Actor
May 6, 1915 - October 10, 1985

Whether or not this story has a happy ending depends, of course, on who is reading it. Whether you are a wolf or a girl.

Kelly Link

Tell me a story, Pew. What kind of story, child? A story with a happy ending. There’s no such thing in all the world. As a happy ending? As an ending.

Jeanette Winterson

My father once told me that a happy ending is just the place where you choose to stop telling the story. So this is where I choose to stop. More things are still going to happen, of course, some good, some bad. Some things never get any better. When people die they stay dead. None of us knows why we love, or why we stop loving, or why everyone we love we lose.

Leah Stewart

A happy ending isn't really the end. It's just the place where you choose to stop telling the story.

Leah Stewart

The ending has to fit. The ending has to matter, and make sense. I could care less about whether it's happy or sad or atomic. The ending is the place where you go, “Aha. Of course. That's right.”

Carrie Jones

If you can see a world within a portrait I would be happy with that. I don't want to tell the story with a painting, though. I'm trying to get away from the story- from the beginning and the ending.

Danny Fox

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

Frances Hardinge

- the only difference between a happy ending and a sad ending is where you decide the story ends.

Andrew Kaufman

Let's say you have $1,000,000 tied up in your little company and suddenly your advertising isn't working and sales are going down. And everything depends on it. Your future depends on it, your family's future depends on it, other people's families depend on it. Now, what do you want from me? Fine writing? Or do you want to see the goddamned sales curve stop moving down and start moving up?

Rosser Reeves

You want a happy ending, but not such a ridiculous happy ending that it doesn't mean anything to anybody.

Paul Feig

Your future is your own again. And I consider that to be a happy ending to the story.

Lisa Mangum

If your happiness depends on your children being happy, that makes them your hostages. So stay out of their business, stop using them for your happiness, and be your own happiness. And that way you are the teacher for your children: someone who knows how to live a happy life.