Good Endings Quotes:

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

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

topic: Art, Writing, I Ll Miss You, Beginnings And Ends, Inspirational New Beginning

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.

- Gilda Radner

source: Gilda Radner (2015). “It's Always Something”, p.254, Simon and Schuster

topic: Life, Change, Healing, I Ll Miss You, Beginnings And Ends

What really counts are good endings, not flawed beginnings.

- Ibn Taymiyyah

topic: Flawed, Good Endings

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.

- Gilda Radner

source: Gilda Radner (2015). “It's Always Something”, p.254, Simon and Schuster

topic: Perfect, Stories, Rhyming, I Ll Miss You, Beginnings And Ends

A hard beginning maketh a good ending.

- John Heywood

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Business, Many Hands, Beginnings And Ends

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.

- Walt Disney

topic: Important, Elements, Theater, Good Endings

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

- Choi Minho

topic: Dream, Giving Up, Don't Give Up, Shinee, Good Endings

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.

- Pseudonymous Bosch

source: Pseudonymous Bosch (2008). “The Name of this Book Is Secret”, p.187, Hachette UK

topic: Book, Want, Ends, Good Endings

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.

- George Burns

topic: Life, Two, Secret, Religious Humor, Sermons

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."

- Julie Andrews

source: Source: www.teachingbooks.net

topic: Writing, Thinking, Stories, Good Endings

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.

- Larry McMurtry

source: Larry McMurtry (2010). “Film Flam: Essays on Hollywood”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

topic: Life, Art, Editing, Pacing, Raw Talent

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

- J. R. R. Tolkien

source: J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.197, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Book, Together, Down And, Happily Ever After, Living 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.

- J. R. R. Tolkien

source: "The Lord of the Rings: One Volume".

topic: Book, Dark, Together, Happily Ever After, Good Endings

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.

- Patrick Rothfuss

topic: Book, People, Pissed Off, Good Endings

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

- Federico Fellini

topic: Together, Film, Opening, Good Endings