Famous quotes containing the words collected, stories and/or volume:
“The shortest answer is doing.”
—English proverb, collected in George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“All my stories are webs of style and none seems at first blush to contain much kinetic matter.... For me “style” is matter.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)
“We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)