“It has long been a tradition among novel writers that a book must end by everybody getting just what they wanted, or if the conventional happy ending was impossible, then it must be a tragedy in which one or both should die. In real life very few of us get what we want, our tragedies don't kill us, but we go on living them year after year, carrying them with us like a scar on an old wound.” IfsWantShouldWritingYearsLongBookRealEndsWantedDiesNovelImpossibleGoes OnTraditionTragedyWoundsReal LifeScarConventionalHappy EndingsOld Wounds Author:Willa Cather
“A romance novel should leave readers joyous. My books all have happy endings.” ShouldBookRomanceNovelReaderHappy EndingsJoyousRomance Novel Author:Judith McNaught
“The bourgeoisie is very fond of so-called practical types and novels with happy endings, since they soothe it with the idea that one can both accumulate capital and preserve innocence, be a beast and at the same time be happy...” ThinkingStillsHappinessLiteratureNovelFineTypeGreedInnocenceBeastAcquireHappy EndingsBourgeoisieLulls Author:Anton Chekhov
“I hadn't written a love story before and I hadn't written a novel with a happy ending before.” StoriesNovelWrittenLove StoryHappy Endings Author:Anna Quindlen