A novel with a bad middle is a bad book. A bad ending is something I've just gotten in the habit of forgiving.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.
Oddly, the meanings of books are defined for me much more by their beginnings and middles than they are by their endings.
It always strikes me how almost unbelievably bad are the early versions of my novels.
I never know how a novel is going to end, because you don't really know what's going to be at the bottom of a novel until you excavate it.
I started thinking about the endings of novels not because I think endings are so important, but because I think they're actually not as important as they're sometimes given credit for.
Usually after finishing a novel, I have a head full of bad ideas for the next one.
It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.
The point about a great story is that it's got a beginning, a middle and end.
The great thing about a trilogy is that it feels like you've got a beginning, a middle, and an end.
The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.