Oddly, the meanings of books are defined for me much more by their beginnings and middles than they are by their endings.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
All the books I have written have been one book, from the beginning.
For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.
For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men lived and worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.
A novel with a bad middle is a bad book. A bad ending is something I've just gotten in the habit of forgiving.
Books are magic: you never know where they're going to end up.
Some books are a revelation. They come along at just the right time for just the right reasons. They become heart books and soul books.
I think the definition of a book is changing.
For me the end of a book is just as exciting as it is for a reader.
I think of every book as a single entity, and some have later gone on to become a series, often at the request of readers.
Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it. I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.