Book Quote by Colm Toibin

If you could have a book called My Favorite Six Stories, I don't think I'd have trouble doing that.

— Ann Beattie

I actually pushed the boundaries on how long a book like this [The Thorn and the Blossom] can be. The original plan called for…

— Theodora Goss

A novel is challenging, because you have more story than you need and you have to select and narrow.

— Peter Hedges

I'd love to do a whole series of stories and have them collected into books.

— Sergio Aragones

Different stories are suited for different mediums.

— Celine Song

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 are one of the few remaining areas of narrative storytelling where one person does almost all of the creative heavy lifting.

— Charles Stross

The bright future is that readers are accepting more varied forms of stories.

— Chuck Palahniuk

You can tell a more over-the-top incredible story if you use a nonfiction form.

— Chuck Palahniuk

I could come up with 50 stories that I am thinking about

— Gay Talese

I look for two things when I am about to launch into a book. First, there has to be a dramatic arc to the…

— David Maraniss

I'm not thinking much about overall themes or preoccupations or anything like that. Instead I'm just trusting that, if I'm working hard, various notions…

— George Saunders