Collections Quote by Bonnie Jo Campbell

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

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

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

— Jean Paul Gaultier

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

For a long time, since story collections look almost precisely like novels, I presumed that they were meant to be enjoyed in the same…

— Ben Dolnick

It's easier to come up with new stories than it is to finish the ones you already have. I think every author would feel…

— Stephenie Meyer

Ideas for stories come in really different terms and really different ways for me. Sometimes they're from books, sometimes they're just kind of out…

— Brian Evenson

The story, I like to say and remember, is always smarter than you—there will be patterns of theme, image, and idea that are much…

— Lucy Corin

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

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 like to envision the creation of a short story collection as being like putting together a jazz album. Yes, there's logic and literary…

— Daniel Olivas

I used to write my own versions of famous tales, such as William Tell or Robin Hood, and illustrate them myself, too. When I…

— Peter Robinson