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A good beginning makes a good end.

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.

The good ending dismisses us with a touch of ceremony and throws a backward light of significance over the story just read. It makes it, as they say, or unmakes it. A weak beginning is forgettable, but the end of a story bulks in the reader's mind like the giant foot in a foreshortened photograph.

The point about a great story is that it's got a beginning, a middle and end.

Life is not so much about beginnings and endings as it is about going on and on and on. It is about muddling through the middle.

Everything you write makes you better. But if you really need a tip, here's one: a good story begins in opposition to its ending. That means you work out how it finishes first, and then begin the story as far away from that point - in terms of character development - as you can.