Character Quote by Andrew Lam

I'd love to do a whole series of stories and have them collected into books.

— Sergio Aragones

For the collection, I am like a painter or a writer. I may or may not be a character in my own story.

— Sonia Rykiel

A collection, for me, is a book of very diverse stories that somehow speak to each other, across wide geography, across time, years, decades.

— Peter Orner

I wasn't writing stories with the intention of creating a particular collection. I simply wrote stories, and then discovered common themes among a good…

— Bonnie Jo Campbell

When I do my collection, it is in a way my own story.

— Jean Paul Gaultier

I'm really into short-story collections and essays; they're my jam.

— Phoebe Robinson

My work is to know the characters intimately and to tell their story.

— Julianna Baggott

I find my characters and stories in many varied places; sometimes they pop out of newspaper articles, obscure historical texts, lively dinner party conversations…

— Lynn Nottage

I'm so personally attached to all the characters I met and photographed over the years ... the anthology is like a photographic reliquary that…

— Hedi Slimane

I collect books, primarily first-edition 20th-century fiction.

— John Larroquette

I think all writers are always collecting characters as we go along. Not just characters of course, we're collecting EVERYTHING. Bits and pieces of…

— Alexandra Sokoloff

I like all of the books I work on to be ones you can pick up without knowing the entire history of the character,…

— Kate Leth