Last Chapter Quotes

Retiring is just practicing up to be dead. That doesn't take any practice.

A novelist must know what his last chapter is going to say and one way or another work toward that last chapter. ... To me it is utterly basic, yet it seems like it's a great secret.

At the age of 60, you see how short the runway is in front of you and how long the runway is behind you, and that you don't have much time left.

When you look at your life as an artist, you do see that when you get to be 60, you're coming - this is the last chapter.

Retiring is getting ready to die.

It's my experience that endings are never easy, and I think I'm not alone among filmmakers or writers in this.

Turning 70 was a real shock. I thought, 'I'm on the last lap now.'

I know my life is nearing its end and I accept that.

It's always hard to wrap up a series. The longer I spend with the characters, the more they become like friends.

I will see this game of life out to its bitter end.

I'm sorry I didn't feel any better or play any better, but that's what happens at the end of careers.

My next book's title is going to be, 'I Have One Foot in the Grave and Another on a Banana Peel.'

There's no future for New Order.

We come to beginnings only at the end.

I worked with a writer, Kathleen Boyce. It was a wonderful experience...but I didn't expect that the last chapter would be the last chapter of Donna Karan. That was probably the biggest shock.

I think that retirement is the first step towards the grave.

Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.

The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

Now that I'm staring down the barrel of the last act of my life, I'm less excited about control and solo effort, and I resent the way the business aspects interfere with my space for creative writing.

The writing of a series finale is horrible.

Endings are not my thing.