Being honest 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

Readers tend to devour short stories on a newssheet, but would be disinclined to read them in collections

— L.P. Hartley

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'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

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

— Jean Paul Gaultier

I don't collect books just because other people collect them, and I'm not going to have books in my collection if I think it's…

— Richard Prince

Collections aren't really planned. I just keep writing short pieces until I have enough for a collection.

— Lydia Davis

Very often, or perhaps more often, and even in very good collections - even in some of the best collections ever written, I would…

— Roy Kesey

Digital texts are all well and good, but books on shelves are a presence in your life. As such, they become a part of…

— Michael Dirda

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

A collection is not just one basic idea. It comes from something that is in the air, something you suddenly like and put down…

— Karl Lagerfeld

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