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Last updated on December 4, 2024.
I tend to write my beginnings and endings first - as a cartoonist and storyteller, I couldn't sit down every day if I didn't know where the story was headed.
He believed in dreams, in endings that people told you could never happen, in disappointments reversed and luck that lasted.
If you enjoy books with happy endings than you are better off reading some other book.
It reminded him that time was short, but that beautiful endings could still be found at the end of cold, dreary days.
This is a modern fairytale. No happy endings. No wind in our sails. But I can't imagine a life without. Breathless moments.
With both novels and short stories, I think a lot in terms of character arcs, when it comes to endings.
I believe that the Universe is like a single organism, and we are all little nerve endings feeding our experiences back into a whole.
Mundanes who involve themselves in things they know nothing about are likely to meet unpleasant endings.
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Let all lovers be content
Give them happy endings
Let their lives be celebrations
Let their hearts dance in the fire of your love
The sense of endings as well as beginnings in the air is now so obvious in so many dimensions of our experience that a critical mass has been reached.
The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy, the building of a house, the writing of a novel, the demolition of a bridge, and, eminently, the finish of a voyage.
Oddly, the meanings of books are defined for me much more by their beginnings and middles than they are by their endings.
When you are in your teenage years you are consciously experiencing everything for the first time, so adolescent stories are all beginnings. There are never any endings.
The worst isn't done. The worst is just beginning, and there are no happy endings. (Samuel Tarly)
Stories without endings can do nothing but go on forever, and to be caught in one means that you must die before your part in it is played out.
I've always had a theory that some of us are born with nerve endings longer than our bodies
I like colorful tales with black beginnings and stormy middles and cloudless blue-sky endings. But any story will do.
Those 'Rocky' endings are great in the movies and on the stage, but I don't think it would be too smart for me to get into that kind of fight in the ring.
About endings....unless we do them well, we have to keep repeating them.
Even the best grandmasters in the world have had to work hard to acquire the technique of rook endings.
He nods, as if to acknowledge that endings are almost always a little sad, even when there is something to look forward to on the other side.
Endings must come naturally, you're supposed to let it happen, not just to make it happen like that.
In this life ain't no happy endings;
Only pure beginnings followed by years of sinning and fake repentance.
There were never going to be any happy endings for me. I know that now. But that is all right.
I always rip out the last page of a book. Then it doesn't have to end. I hate endings!
There are never beginnings and endings in my work; everything just fits into place after a while.
Books ought to have good endings.How would this do: and they all settled down and lived together happily ever after?
If I've been accused a number of times of writing plays where the endings are ambivalent, indeed, that's the way I find life.
The best thing about endings is knowing that just ahead is the daunting task to start over.
A lot of Americans like happy endings, but life does not necessarily have a happy ending.
I keep trying to write happy endings, but my books always end on more of a bittersweet note of ambiguity.
When your parents split up, it's impossible to delude yourself about fairytale romance and happy endings.
and now we get to the hard part. the endings, the farewells, and the famous last words. if you don't hear from me often, remember that you're in my thoughts.
That's kind of the weird thing that M. Night Shyamalan has sort of unleashed upon the world is this need for every movie to have these ridiculous endings.
I believe in happy endings," I tell him, "And it feels like this movie has gone on for the right amount of time.
Partings are the beginnings of new meetings. Beginnings happen because there are endings.
These happy endings all express the weak and sly promise that the world is not rotten and out of joint but meaningful and ultimately in excellent condition.
Endings of television shows are sometimes such depressing things. It's like you're not going to hang out with these people anymore, and that's bad enough.
Some reviewers call my stories dark - and yes, there is violence and angst, and the stakes are high - but I like to think that the endings are satisfying and hopeful.
Our culture thrives on black-and-white narratives, clearly defined emotions, easy endings, and so, this thrust into complexity exhausts.
My stories always have these twisted happy endings, and the boy always gets the girl.
True stories seldom have endings. I don't want a happy ending, I want more story.
The sad part about happy endings is there's nothing to write about.
People who live in difficult circumstances need to know that happy endings are possible. Page 1.
I love watching movies with happy endings or anything with Steve Martin or stuff like that.
I often find that writers who disavow the importance of an ending are just not very good at endings.
There are no such things as happy endings. Never. They're totally manufactured by fiction writers who choose to end the story on a high point.
That's what fiction writers do: create characters and do terrible things to them for the entertainment of others. If they feel guilty enough, they write happy endings.
'Gossip Girl' came out in rapid succession over two years, so the endings always had to be suspenseful so that you couldn't wait for the next one.
I want people to see that there are happy endings, that we do achieve our goals, that it's never too late.
Endings are not our destiny...They are merely interruptions-temporary pauses that one day will seem small compared to the eternal joy awaiting the faithful.
To my way of thinking, Troitzky has no peer among endgame compsers; no one else has composed so many and such varied endings of the first rank.
Maybe I'm old-fashioned. But I remember the beauty and thrill of being moved by Broadway musicals - particularly the endings of shows.
The biggest reason that positive endings don't happen is because employees are trained on policies and rules rather than principles.
I loved playing Jackie on 'Happy Endings.' It was really exciting to be in the pilot and then be able to come back. Her character was so much fun!
You can’t just hope for happy endings. You have to believe in them. Then do the work, take the risks.
It cannot be too greatly emphasized that the most important role in pawn endings is played by the king.
You don't reach points in life at which everything is sorted out for us. I believe in endings that should suggest our stories always continue.
There are only three possible endings -aren't there? - to any story: revenge, tragedy or forgiveness. That's it. All stories end like that.
The Rolling Stones are violence. Their music penetrates the raw nerve endings of their listeners and finds its way into the groove marked 'release of frustration.'
