Unfinished Story Quotes

If a story isn't working, I'm simply unable to finish it. That's what usually tells me something is wrong.

But it was too early to know: there were always more pages to go, more words to be written, before the story was over.

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.

Nothing ends nicely, that's why it ends.

It happened to me on 'King of the Hill,' where I'd left it before the end and didn't really participate in the ending, and I always felt a little bit like I wanted to try a different version of that story.

Not everything has a happy ending, and not everything has an ending. Some things just kind of dribble away or cut off abruptly.

I was watching him crawl, Back over the wall-! Then bang! Crash! And the lightning flash! And- well, that's another story, Never mind- Anyway.

A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.

My novel, which I had started with such hope shortly after publishing my first book of stories, wouldn't budge past the 75-page mark. Nothing I wrote past page 75 made any kind of sense. Nothing. Which would have been fine if the first 75 pages hadn't been pretty damn cool.

Nobody's life is wrapped up neatly in a bow.

The Bible tells a story. A story that isn’t over. A story that is still being told. A story that we have a part to play in.

After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.

I love basketball, and I didn't get a chance to finish my career the way I wanted.

The truth is, I wrote a novel when I was 23. It's hideously bad. Truly rotten.

Perhaps you're not finished with your story, and who knows if you'll ever finish it or not. Honestly, it's not that important.

I get tired of stories that keep going and going and never get anywhere. It's like a promise that's never fulfilled. Stories need endings. Otherwise, they aren't really stories. Just pages.

I wasn't ready for 'Bright Star' to end when it did.

But those words were only the middle of the story. There was a beginning here, too.

A golden rule: to leave an incomplete image of oneself.

I see the poem or the novel ending with an open door.

I only remember the end of my dreams, like waking up at a steering wheel, or falling.

Well, I used to have a sister, but I never got to meet her because she died after two days, I think. So if I got a tattoo, it would probably have to be something to do with my sister. I actually want to get a tattoo when I'm older of something about her.

My grandfather started his autobiography before he died; he never finished it. I would like to finish his autobiography because I finished mine.

What's upsetting about an autobiography is that the final chapter is always missing. I mean, you want the death, don't you?

I've often thought that we left the original 'Phantom' with a little bit of a cliff hanger, and I thought, 'Well, why not to do a sequel to it' at one point.