1450b.26
Poetics
“Every story has a beginning, a middle, and an end. Not necessarily in that order.”
Interview with Don Swaim (1986)
Interview with Don Swaim (1986)
Steve Miller, Chapter 36, Steve, p. 376
Source: 2000s, The Last Song (2009)
“Now begin in the middle, and later learn the beginning; the end will take care of itself.”
The Social History of Art, Volume I. From Prehistoric Times to the Middle Ages, 1999, Chapter IV. The Middle Ages
“Change is hardest at the beginning, messiest in the middle and best at the end.”
Source: The Leader Who Had No Title: A Modern Fable on Real Success in Business and in Life
Mountain Interval (1920), 5. In the Home Stretch, Line 187-192
General sources
Context: “My dear,
It’s who first thought the thought. You’re searching, Joe,
For things that don’t exist; I mean beginnings.
Ends and beginnings—there are no such things.
There are only middles.
“A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order.”
Variant: A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end... but not necessarily in that order.
“It is rare for a novel to have an ending as good as its middle and beginning…”
“An Unread Book”, p. 25
The Third Book of Criticism (1969)
