A Quote by Stephen King
And in real life endings aren't always neat, whether they're happy endings, or whether they're sad endings.
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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.
I'm a hopeful romantic who adores novels with happy endings, because there are enough sad endings in real life.
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.
I find it ironic that happy endings now are called fairytale endings because there's nothing happy about most fairytale endings.
I always try to do true endings and that's where I got into trouble always because Hollywood wants to do happy endings.
I'm not an endings person. I don't do endings. There may have been people in the band who wanted this to be an ending from time to time, but me and Amy don't really do endings. You cannot escape from us. Once we're friends with you, that's it.
Not only are there no happy endings,' she told him, 'there aren't even any endings.
There are no happy endings. Endings are the saddest part, So just give me a happy middle And a very happy start.
Making people laugh is so much more difficult than making them sad. Too much fiction defaults to the somber, the tragic. This is because sad endings are easy in comparison - happy endings aren't at all simple to earn, especially when writing to an audience jaded by them.
Unhappy endings can be as cheap as happy endings.
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.
I am hopeful, though not full of hope, and the only reason I don't believe in happy endings is because I don't believe in endings.
Happy endings are still endings.
People relate to things that feel real to them. All the good, happy, over-sexed and moneyed endings on TV are not the way most of us feel in our lives. The success of 'E.R.,' I think, is not relying on overly sentimental stories that are solved where people's lives wrap up nicely with happy endings.
There are no endings, and never will be endings, to the turning of the Wheel of Time. But it was an ending.
I hate endings. Just detest them. Beginnings are definitely the most exciting, middles are perplexing and endings are a disaster. … The temptation towards resolution, towards wrapping up the package, seems to me a terrible trap. Why not be more honest with the moment? The most authentic endings are the ones which are already revolving towards another beginning. That’s genius.
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