Books Quote by Ben Dolnick

I don't know if that's new, but it has become very official over the past 25 or 30 years - and today it's probably…

— Nicolas Ghesquiere

I don't want the collections to look like a potpourri. It has to have a cohesive idea, and it has to be glamorous and…

— Carolina Herrera

When you're my age and you see a story, you better go for it pretty quickly. I'd just like to get a few more…

— John le Carre

I would like my novels to be read the way I read the novels I love.

— Mario Vargas Llosa

I hope people will like my novels after I'm dead. And I hope my children think about me in good ways, by and large.

— Clyde Edgerton

“I have only met men like you in novels, men who lived their own idiosyncrasies.”

— Sachin Kundalkar

I did think reviewers were supposed to be polite about story collections - collections are rather delicate creatures in the literary environment - but…

— Lorrie Moore

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

We know story collections end when they end, as well - the pages serving as a countdown - but nevertheless the standard story anthology…

— Junot Diaz

You know, it's sort of common wisdom among New York publishers that short story collections don't make money.

— Chad Harbach

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

— Phoebe Robinson

Some writers keep a tighter rein on that than others. For short story collections I'm definitely in the loose-rein camp.

— Roy Kesey