Architecture Quote by Nicole Krauss

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

The only reason we find structure in stories is because it's there naturally in human interaction, and in the way that people tell stories.

— Lynda Barry

Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.

— Alice Munro

My stories are very compact. I want them to say the most complex things in the simplest way.

— Etgar Keret

“A memory is its own thing each time it's recalled. It's not absolute. Stories based on actual events often share more with fiction than…

— Iain Reid

If you have a structure beforehand, you're sort of stuffing your story into a pre-assembled box. You don't want that to happen. What you…

— Colum McCann

How we experience memory sometimes, it's not linear. We're not telling the stories to ourselves. We know the story; we're just seeing it in…

— Frank Ocean

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

Memory doesn't come as a straight narrative. It comes in small moments with all this white space.

— Jacqueline Woodson

There are as many forms of memory as there are ways of perceiving, and every one of them is worth mining for inspiration.

— Twyla Tharp

The most basic organizing principle was pretty straightforward, and is frankly pretty common: the shorter of what are by my lights the two most…

— Roy Kesey

“researchers commonly distinguish the following memory systems: memory for how to do things (procedural memory), memory for facts (semantic memory), and memory for events…

— Thomas Suddendorf