Collections Quote by Augusten Burroughs

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

— Jean Paul Gaultier

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

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

— Sergio Aragones

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

— Phoebe Robinson

I've seen novels that have grown out of one story in a collection. But it hasn't occurred to me to take any of those…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

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

I have great stories. I am going to write a book.

— Carlene Carter

I'm always working on a few different stories at once, so there's always some really big coffee table book I'm carrying around.

— Mo Rocca

I've got stories on every one of my albums, big ones.

— Ghostface Killah

All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them.

— Isabel Allende

Going from memoir to fiction was fantastic. I had been afraid to move away from memoir; I'd written some novel drafts, but they weren't…

— Janice Erlbaum

I'm going to marry my novels and have little short stories for children.

— Jack Kerouac