Alliances Quote by Roy Kesey

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

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

The collection is a labor of love and devotion, and whenever I found free time from my journalism work, I'd work on one story…

— Andrew Lam

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

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

A collection, for me, is a book of very diverse stories that somehow speak to each other, across wide geography, across time, years, decades.

— Peter Orner

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

— Sergio Aragones

I read individual stories a lot in magazines and other places, too, but I really think there's something to be said for reading story…

— Brian Evenson

To create a collection, you need a narrative - an explanation to tell the team.

— Dries van Noten

The benefit of writing a collection - as opposed to a novel - is that I'm able to have some version of the war…

— Said Sayrafiezadeh

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

— Lydia Davis

I like the idea of a big caesura between the narratives, a space which readers can fill in with their own speculative history.

— Jonathan Coe