Top 20 The Collected Stories Quotes

#1. (Interested in being a better writer? Go buy yourself a copy of The Collected Stories by Grace Paley.) The

Ann Patchett

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#2. He had been my almost. My might-have-been.
I was afraid of what I wanted most - His kiss.
Still, I collected kiss stories.
-Susie Salmon

Alice Sebold

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#3. The Veteran's History Project, a nationwide volunteer effort to collect oral histories from America's war veterans, provides an avenue to do just that. Now in its fifth year, the Project has collected more than 40,000 individual stories.

Spencer Bachus

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#4. My life is in these books. Read these and know my heart. We are not quire novels. We are not quite short stories. In the end, we are collected works.

Gabrielle Zevin

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#5. And realizes how there are all these moments, moments like just this one, there are all these moments, and how everyone lives their lives in these short, all-too-short moments. There are all these moments and what's so interesting, what makes them beautiful, is the fact that none of them last.

Joe Meno

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#6. What did it mean to be crazy? She hadn't the slightest idea, because the word was used in a completely anarchic way.

Paulo Coelho

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#7. The more riots that come out of our college campuses, the better the world for tomorrow.

William Allen White

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#8. But what I did think would be interesting is if we created a fictitious story of our own, and then took these stories that we had collected and assigned them to characters who would be played by actors.

Jim McKay

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#9. he collected the stories like treasure.

Laini Taylor

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#10. Sometimes, our fates are no longer ours to decide, and we can only grip our fists until our knuckles turn white and hang on for the rest of the ride.

Chris Jones

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#11. I'm only a novelist on occasion. Many of my books are made up of brief texts collected together, short stories, or else they are books that have an overall structure but are composed of various texts.

Italo Calvino

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#12. When I was working on 'Drown' - this was way back in the mid-'90s - I had this idea that I wanted to do another collected stories. I wanted to do another book like 'Drown' that focused specifically on infidelity.

Junot Diaz

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#13. Berg was proud of his storytelling to the point where he collected stories about telling stories.

Nicholas Dawidoff

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#14. I picked up my volume of Collected Stories and Poems by Edgar Allen Poe. I sprawled across the bed and flipped through the pages until I came to one of my favorite short stories: "The Oval Portrait.

Crystal Smith Gordon

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#15. The more I learn, the more I am convinced that there are no original stories. On several occasions I have "invented" an incident, and then come across it in an obscure fragment of Hebridean lore, orally collected, and privately printed, a hundred years ago.

Alan Garner

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#16. We know we are very special," Davis writes in "Special": "Yet we keep trying to find out in what way: not this way, not that way, then what way?" (from James Wood's review of the FSG "Collected Stories of Lydia Davis")

Lydia Davis

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

Sergio Aragones

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#18. Teaching does allow me to keep one foot in the youthful waters I tend to occupy in my novels, so I'm thankful for that. My students also remind me on a daily basis that the stories I collected during my district attorney days are actually interesting to people who haven't had that experience.

Alafair Burke

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#19. I'm total, total, total liberal and proud of it.

Lauren Bacall

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#20. I loved books - not only the stories they contained, but the feel of them in my hands, the silk of the pages, the words all collected in one place.

Laurelin Paige

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