Books Quote by Ben Dolnick

I read individual stories a lot in magazines and other places, too, but I really think there's something to be said for reading story…

— Brian Evenson

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'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

To me there's no difference between a book of stories and a novel - they're just slightly different shapes.

— Aleksandar Hemon

Now the novels that are read are purely entertainment – well done, very polished, with a very effective technique – but not literature, just entertainment.

— Mario

I know for a fact that - it's just the way our biases work now in the industry of literature, but certainly a short…

— Junot Diaz

I think there is an insatiable appetite for romance and for love stories, which is partly why these books and movies do so well.

— Chris Harrison

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

Novels attempt to render human experience; that's really all they are. They are meant to convey empathy for the character.

— Sue Monk Kidd

I think of every book as a single entity, and some have later gone on to become a series, often at the request of…

— Lois Lowry

I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are…

— W. Somerset Maugham

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