Attention Quote by Junot Diaz

“... There may not be even two men living in the world whom I would have agreed to marry, certainly not on such short…

— Marie Brennan

Jean Thompson's short-story collection 'Who Do You Love' is a beautiful book, but a hell of a sad one.

— Jeff Giles

A short-story collection is harder to formulate pithy sentences about.

— Ben Dolnick

The book that first made me want to be a writer is Flannery O'Connor's short story collection 'A Good Man Is Hard To Find.'

— Karin Slaughter

By examining characters lighting the way to hell, as it were, are readers spared iniquity? Are stories a heeded warning, or merely an entertainment?…

— Adam Ross

The most terrifying thing I can think of is being alone - and I mean utterly alone, like no one else in the world…

— Paul Kane

I have . . . a deep concern with the development of a literature worthy of our past, and of our destiny; without which…

— Sterling K. Brown

“Dualism... Without it there can hardly be good literature. With it, there most certainly can be no good life.”

— Aldous Huxley

For a sampler, you could try my short story collection "Wireless". Which contains one novella that scooped a Locus award, and one that won…

— Charles Stross

Many critics, when trying to praise a short-story collection, will say that it has the heft and scope of a good novel. But for…

— Gary Krist

I had a short story collection come out in 2006, and then I couldn't work on large projects for a long time because I…

— Theodora Goss

I'm reading George Saunders's story collection, "Tenth of December." He was my mentor at the University of Syracuse. The stories are mind-blowing like everyone…

— Cheryl Strayed