Short Story Collections Quotes

I remember I was very taken with a book called DreamTigers by [Jorge Luis] Borges. He was at the University of Texas, Austin, and they collected some of his writings and put them in a little collection. It's called DreamTigers in English, but it doesn't exist in Spanish. It's a little sampler. But that collection in English is what struck me, because in there he has his poems, and I was a poet as well as a fiction writer.

My favorite short stories are by Alice Munro, especially her collections 'Carried Away' and 'Runaway.'

Good short-story collections, like good record albums, are almost always hit-and-miss affairs - successful if they include three or four great tracks, wildly successful if they have five. And that's as it should be.

Way back in 1989, I got lucky with my first published story when it was selected for the Journey Prize anthology. Then I got lucky three more times. It is astounding to see how many writers published in the anthology have gone on to publish great story collections and novels. The anthology is a windfall for both writer and reader.

Most publishers seem very reluctant to publish short story collections at all; they bring them out in paperback, often disguised as novels.

My post-child period resulted in one instant change: I write shorter books for kids.

In the early 2000s, I started selling some short stories to horror markets. I joined the Horror Writers Association.

I started publishing stories in small magazines early on, but after seven or eight or nine years you feel like you need a little more than that to show for your efforts.