Collections Quote by 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 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

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 have lots of objects. Every object has a story, which makes me think I should write a story about every object.

— Michelle Stuart

With me, a story usually begins with a single idea or mental picture. The writing of the story is simply a matter of working…

— William Faulkner

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

— Jean Paul Gaultier

[I have a] way of making narrative sculpture, where first you make a text and out of that text you make objects. [...] I…

— Matthew Barney

I try to do the story the way I feel the story should be done, and how that folds into whatever larger sorts of…

— David Milch

Each story tells me how to write it, but not the one afterwards.

— Eudora Welty

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

My style of writing is to allow the story to unfold on its own. I try not to structure my work too rigidly.

— Anita Desai