Nancy Kress

A true epilogue is removed from the story in time or space. That's the reason it is called an 'Epilogue'; the label serves to alert the reader that the story itself is over, but we are going to now see a distant result or consequence of that story.

American Writer

John Irving

Titles are important; I have them before I have books that belong to them. I have last chapters in my mind before I see first chapters, too. I usually begin with endings, with a sense of aftermath, of dust settling, of epilogue.

American Novelist

Sarah MacLean

In seven books, I've written my fair share of baby epilogues. Pregnancies and births and even grandchildren have made an appearance in the final pages of my books.

American Author

Diana Gabaldon

I write where I can see things happen, and then things get glued together. I do have the final scene, but that really is an epilogue. It's not part of the plot.

An epilogue provides closure, revealing the fate of characters after the main story ends.

Narrative Closure

Epilogues often skip forward in time to show future events or outcomes of the story.

Future Glimpse

The tone of an epilogue is usually more reflective or informative, differentiating it from other chapters.

Reflective Tone

 that I had covered a year earlier, and I had this notion that I might enter it, sort of as an experiment in participatory journalism. It'd make, I thought, maybe a nice epilogue to all my research. Problem was, the experiment went haywire. I won the contest --

Feats of memory anyone...

 where our story began. However, there's an epilogue to this tale. It was discovered that these electrons flow in the opposite direction to what Franklin supposed. Therefore, objects that are positively charged don't have an excess of electrical fluid,