“One end begins another
The countdown to infinity
A better life
A better way”
D. S. Bradford (1982) musician
A Call To The Stars II: A Home In The Sky, verse 2, lines 1-4
A Call To The Stars II: A Home In The Sky (2016)
“The only end of writing is to enable the readers better to enjoy life, or better to endure it.”
A Review http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Texts/jenyns.html of Soame Jenyns' A Free Enquiry into the Nature and Origin of Evil, published in the first volume of Miscellaneous and Fugitive Pieces (London, 1774), p. 23
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Context: When you write a short story... you had better know the ending first. The end of a story is only the end to the reader. To the writer, it's the beginning. If you don't know exactly where you're going every minute you're writing, you'll never get there — or anywhere.
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Context: You can only learn to be a better writer by actually writing. I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.
“It's four in the morning, the end of december
I'm writing you now just to see if you're better.”
Leonard Cohen (1934–2016) Canadian poet and singer-songwriter
“Your life only gets better when you get better.”
Brian Tracy (1944) American motivational speaker and writer
“Everything gets better in the end. If it's not better, it's not quite the end.”
Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist
“It will all be better in the end and if it is not better then it must not be the end yet”
Dean Koontz book From the Corner of His Eye
Source: From the Corner of His Eye
