Good Endings Quotes

A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provided they come close together.

Each book needs a good beginning and a good ending. People get pissed off when you don't close things off properly at the end.

Only bad books have good endings. If a book is any good, it's ending is always bad - because you don't want the book to end.

A good ending is vital to a picture, the single most important element, because it is what the audience takes with them out of the theater.

Books ought to have good endings.How would this do: and they all settled down and lived together happily ever after?

Have you thought of an ending?' 'Yes , several, and all are dark and unpleasant,' said Frodo. 'Oh , that won't do!' said Bilbo. 'Books ought to have good endings. How would this do: and they all settled down and lived together happily ever after?' 'It will do well, if it ever comes to that,' said Frodo.

What really counts are good endings, not flawed beginnings.

If you don't give up your hopes and dreams, then there will always be a good ending.

The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible.

Obviously, where art has it over life is in the matter of editing. Life can be seen to suffer from a drastic lack of editing. It stops too quick, or else it goes on too long. Worse, its pacing is erratic. Some chapters are little more than a few sentences in length, while others stretch into volumes. Life, for all its raw talent, has little sense of structure. It creates amazing textures, but it can't be counted on for snappy beginnings or good endings either. Indeed, in many cases no ending is provided at all.

Because I come from the theater, I use the images of the theater and of movies a great deal when I write. I see the story in my head. I have to break down the outline of a story first. I have to know where I'm going. Usually I have a good beginning and a good ending, and then I think, "Now I have to find my way through it."

Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.

Some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end.

I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end.

A hard beginning maketh a good ending.

Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.