Quotes About Middles

#1. 'Monkeys' is made up of nine short stories that tell an overall story. 'Folly' is a series of vignettes all put together to tell a larger story. In 'Lust and Other Stories,' there are nine stories - three, three, three; the beginnings of love, the middles, and the afters.

Susan Minot

#2. ... beginnings are always reserved for anxiety, middles are for experience, problems and troubleshooting, and only once the beginning and middle have been combined to form a past can room be made for the ending, and relief.

Tania Aebi

#3. People think in narratives - in beginnings, middles and ends. The danger when you edit something too severely is that it no longer makes sense; worse still, it leaves people with the disquieting impression that something is being hidden.

Errol Morris

#4. I like it when actors get an opportunity to chew into something. They love scenes with beginnings, middles, and ends - scenes that give an arc to their characters and allow audiences to get to know these people.

Tracy Letts

#5. Books were about movement. They were about quests and journeys. Beginnings and middles and ends, even if not in that order. They were about new chapters. And leaving old ones behind.

Matt Haig

#6. She had heard all about excluded middles ; they were bad shit, to be avoided ...

Thomas Pynchon

#7. We middles see the world in shades of grey rather than in the clear blacks and whites of committed animal activists and their equally vociferous opponents

Hal Herzog

#8. I like to tell stories that have beginnings, middles and ends.

Eric Kripke

#9. Believe it or not, stories don't function in terms of beginnings, middles and ends, they simply have beginnings, middles, and ends.

Film Crit Hulk!

#10. Beginnings are definitely the most exciting, middles are perplexing and endings are a disaster.

Sam Shepard

#11. Endings are elusive, middles are nowhere to be found, but worst of all is to begin, to begin, to begin.

Donald Barthelme

#12. You're searching ...
For things that don't exist; I mean beginnings.
Ends and beginnings - there are no such things.
There are only middles.

Robert Frost

#13. Where are the beginnings, the endings, and most important, the middles?

Julio Cortazar

#14. Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.

A.S. Byatt

#15. The continuum in which we live is not the kind of place in which middles can be unambiguously excluded.

Reuben Abel

#16. I do not know why journalists insist on calling their stuff "pieces", when they are in fact little entities, attempting to have beginnings, middles and endings.

James Cameron

#17. ( ... ) but no, ends must not be permitted to precede beginnings and middles, even if recent scientific experiments have shown us that within certain types of closed systems, under intense pressure, time can be persuaded to run backwards, so that effects precede their causes.

Salman Rushdie

#18. Fiction is the enemy of history. Fiction makes us believe in structure, in beginnings and middles and endings, in tragedy and comedy. There is neither tragedy nor comedy in war, only disorder and harm.

Sarah Moss

#19. That's the kind of thing, if you get to thinking about, that could wake you in the middle of night. I didn't want my nights to have any middles.

Christopher Morley

#20. Oddly, the meanings of books are defined for me much more by their beginnings and middles than they are by their endings.

Lev Grossman

#21. I like colorful tales with black beginnings and stormy middles and cloudless blue-sky endings. But any story will do.

Katherine Applegate

#22. We believed Paris was the start of us. It's the kind of city that makes you think of beginnings, or even juicy middles. Paris is a book to savor, in whole or in part, at any time and in any season. At age ninety or at thirty-four, you can open any chapter and read from there.

Michelle Gable

#23. A society that's addicted to narratives with beginnings, middles, and endings will eventually yearn to end. We just want it to end.

Douglas Rushkoff

#24. There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.

Van Morrison

#25. We live in biological time, and we have beginnings, middles, and ends.

Anonymous

#26. The higher you go in many big companies, the thinner the oxygen; and the thinner the oxygen, the more difficult it is to support intelligent life. Thus, the middles and bottoms of organizations contain most of the intelligence, and intelligence is necessary to appreciate innovative products.

Guy Kawasaki

#27. I have a problem with beginnings ... and endings ... and middles. But I don't know what else I would do. I find it very, very difficult to write. It takes everything; it's physically and mentally and emotionally exhausting for me. And my neighbours. And my dog.

Miriam Toews

#28. The epic implications of being human end in more than this: We start our lives as if they were momentous stories, with a beginning, a middle and an appropriate end, only to find that they are mostly middles.

Anatole Broyard

#29. but that is the way of things, with cities as with life, for one moment we are pottering about our errands as usual and the next we are dying, and our eternally impending ending does not put a stop to our transient beginnings and middles until the instant when it does. Saeed

Mohsin Hamid

#30. I like middles ... It is in middles that extremes clash, where ambiguity restlessly rules.

John Updike