Collections Quote by Arthur Bradford

I start every first draft with voice rather than theme or image or even character as such, so it isn't like I'm ever rubbing…

— Roy Kesey

The collection is a labor of love and devotion, and whenever I found free time from my journalism work, I'd work on one story…

— Andrew Lam

My preferred style is to write in first person, so I always have to play around with possible narrator voices until I find something…

— Laurie Graham

I realized the structure in a collection is how they're put together. Structuring the collection became the art of it for me. Because the…

— Jess Walter

You know how some people say that they can only read one story a day from this or that collection? If that's simply the…

— Roy Kesey

Any time I put together a story collection, I don't know what it's going to look like overall - or even what the title…

— Brian Evenson

Each piece I tell stands on its own, and then it all ties together. It segues from story to story, and then I wrap…

— Ron Shock

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

For whatever reason, thus far it's been important to me not to write that kind of collection. Which means that I've spent months playing…

— Roy Kesey

I find it an easy way into writing pieces is to think what the character's voice is like, and start from there.

— Armando Iannucci

Character and story are suggested by the voice in the words themselves.

— Jayne Anne Phillips

There has always been this narrator in me - I loved ideas, and part of the great love affair I would have with ideas…

— Jason Silva