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Friday Find: Best Last Lines from Novels

by Erika Dreifus on December 2, 2011
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As a fiction writer, I find story and novel beginnings hard. But I find endings infinitely more challenging.

So this list of “best last lines from novels” gives me a lot to think about. (Thanks to @Quotes4Writers for tweeting it out.)

Have a great weekend, all. See you back here on Monday!

Craft of Writing, Fiction

About Erika

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Erika Dreifus is a reader, writer, and literary advocate whose latest book, Birthright: Poems, was published by Kelsay Books in fall 2019. She is also the editor and publisher of The Practicing Writer, a free (and popular) e-newsletter that features opportunities and resources for fictionists, poets, and writers of creative nonfiction.

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