Alternate Quote by James Laughlin

You can see the diversity that pieces in the anthology represent, and then the interconnections-obvious and less obvious-between various stories or between various modes…

— Aleksandar Hemon

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

I'm so personally attached to all the characters I met and photographed over the years ... the anthology is like a photographic reliquary that…

— Hedi Slimane

The great thing about an anthology is that each year is its own 10-hour movie, and the only requirement is that it's the best…

— Noah Hawley

I'm not thinking much about overall themes or preoccupations or anything like that. Instead I'm just trusting that, if I'm working hard, various notions…

— George Saunders

Theme is great for people who like to approach stories that way, but it's an organizing principle that helps us write a story that…

— Kurt Busiek

I don't really do themes. I might accidentally, but themes are an emergent phenomena of the writing of the book, of just trying to…

— Iain Banks

I wrote the poems in Charms Against Lightning one by one, over almost a decade, and I did not write them toward any theme…

— James Arthur

The anthology meets with two different kinds of reactions in living poets. They will either write toward the anthology or away from it. Anti-anthology…

— Laura Riding

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

Genres have a history and impose a historical character upon the writer. What is interesting in the poem involves a certain kind of dramatization…

— Vijay Seshadri

We know story collections end when they end, as well - the pages serving as a countdown - but nevertheless the standard story anthology…

— Junot Diaz