Sarah Dessen Quotes

The biggest regret I have about 'Rubicon' is that we didn't end it. Sometimes you do these shows and you don't have the opportunity to get closure. Stories are supposed to have a beginning, middle and an end.

The last sentence of a book is, of course, where you have to stop.

The end of a story must be stronger rather than weaker than the beginning, since it is the end which contains the denouement or culmination and which will leave the strongest impression upon the reader.

But it was an ending.

Now you know the rest of the story.

All good things have to come to an end, and the male cheerleader has come to an end

The end of a novel, like the end of a children's dinner-party, must be made up of sweetmeats and sugar-plums.

It's just like sex; when [a book is] finished, it's finished.

An answer is always a form of death.

That's all folks!

The greatest hits in some weird way marks the end of something.

And one more thing.

The good ending dismisses us with a touch of ceremony and throws a backward light of significance over the story just read. It makes it, as they say, or unmakes it. A weak beginning is forgettable, but the end of a story bulks in the reader's mind like the giant foot in a foreshortened photograph.

Endings are the toughest, harder than beginnings. They must satisfy the expectations you have hopefully generated in your reader - not frustrate them, leave the reader grasping at elusive strings.

How you leave the reader is so important - not the climax; I call it the 'exit feeling'.

Yeah, I don't necessarily like endings that contrive an artificial moment of completion.

I often find that writers who disavow the importance of an ending are just not very good at endings.

When the play is over, it's over.

Happy endings must come at the end of something,' the Walrus pointed out. 'If they happen in the middle of a story, or an adventure, or the like, all they do is cheer things up for awhile.

What is an ending? There's no such thing. Death is the only ending.

To make an end is to make a beginning.

You can't argue with the dead, no matter what you say, they always have the last word.

At the end of the day it's the end of the day.

Every beginning is a consequence - every beginning ends some thing.

Nothing’s worse than a story without an end.