As part of my research for An Anthology of Authors'…

The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.

— Calvin Trillin

The original Greek meaning of the word anthology is a collection or gathering of flowers in bloom.

— Jane Garmey

I've never heard of that anthology [Vance Randolph, Pissing in the Snow], but you can be sure I'll buy it now.

— Donald Ray Pollock

I think as long as the standard of quality, the story-telling, film-making, acting etc. etc. remains consistent, then you've got a good change of…

— Neil Marshall

When I stand in a library where is all the recorded wit of the world, but none of the recording, a mere accumulated, and…

— Henry David Thoreau

Cross-pollination and "contamination" is really important to the health of fiction, and sometimes it's a literal conversation, too, in that writers who might never…

— Jeff VanderMeer

After my grandfather died I went down to the basement of my family house where my family kept books, anthologies and things and there…

— Edward Hirsch

You apply the skills you use to produce your own book to make an anthology. Shaping. Rhythm.

— Anonymous

No matter what, I'm never going to get an anthology from an actual publisher, though I could always score another music anthology. But if…

— Richard Meltzer

I am also working on a couple of short stories for anthologies. This is new to me and Im enjoying it.

— Judith Guest

I once was asked to contribute to a mushroom poem anthology. I didn't have anything, and so instead ended up writing the introduction. I…

— Jane Hirshfield

Way back in 1989, I got lucky with my first published story when it was selected for the Journey Prize anthology. Then I got…

— David Bergen

I regret that there aren't more short stories in other magazines. But in a certain way, I think the disappearance of the short-story template…

— Lorin Stein

I had the idea to do an anthology about instrument-making.

— David Toop

It's nice when you've done enough movies that you can do your own anthology.

— John Lithgow