"Books ought to have good endings.How would..." - Quote by J R R Tolkien
Books ought to have good endings.How would this do: and they all settled down and lived together happily ever after?
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“It was one of those fine little love stories that can make you smile in your sleep at night.”
“Stories are as unique as the people who tell them, and the best stories are in which the ending is a surprise.”
“I have no liking for novels or stories - none in the world; and so, whenever I read one - which is not oftener than once in two years, and even in these same cases I seldom read beyond the middle of the book - my distaste for the vehicle always taints my judgment of the literature itself, as a matter of course; and also of course makes my verdict valuless. Are you saying "You have written stories yourself." Quite true: but the fact that an Indian likes to scalp people is no evidence that he likes to be scalped.”