What I thought was so great about Rise [of the Planet of the Apes ] was that it wasn't a retelling; it was an entering of the universe at a different point. So it's Planet of the Apes. We already know the ending. There's no mystery in that! It becomes Planet of the Apes. So it's not about what is at the end; it's about how did we get there? And that enabled something that was totally fresh, which was an ape-point-of-view movie.
I like to joke that I started writing long poems out the anxiety over ending and starting poems. It just seemed easier to keep going.
Many a good beginning makes a bad ending.
The best thing I ever bought will always be the next piece of musical equipment. I'm always interested in new techniques and there seems to be a never ending supply of great equipment to play, and to play with. My studio is a bit of a playroom.
When you're writing a story, you're creating something of an artificial ending.
I like an ending that's both a door and a window.
Ending is better than mending.
. . . habit starts at the second crime. At the first one, something is ending.
Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all.
If you don't give up your hopes and dreams, then there will always be a good ending.
October knew, of course, that the action of turning a page, of ending a chapter or of shutting a book, did not end a tale. Having admitted that, he would also avow that happy endings were never difficult to find: "It is simply a matter," he explained to April, "of finding a sunny place in a garden, where the light is golden and the grass is soft; somewhere to rest, to stop reading, and to be content.
O gentlemen, the time of life is short! To spend that shortness basely were too long, If life did ride upon a dial's point, Still ending at the arrival of an hour.
I like to read the ending first.
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.
For me, going to London is like coming home. In fact, I've often entertained the idea of ending my days there.
Because I think of novels as collaborative enterprises between the writer and the reader, all of my novels so far have ending with endings that maybe point in more than one direction, and that seems important to me because it seems important to me that after you've invested twenty or thirty hours of your imaginative life into this narrative that you have some stake in how it ends.
Not everything in this life has a happy ending, but this life is not the end of the story.
States should have the right to enact laws. . . particularly to end the inhumane practice of ending a life that otherwise could live.
Over the field rang his clear voice calling: ‘Death! Ride, ride to ruin and the world’s ending!
The world is always ending and always beginning at every moment.