"Here's what I want from a book, what……" — Pat Conroy

"Here's what I want from a book, what I demand, what I pray for when I take up a novel and begin to read the first sentence: I want everything and nothing less, the full measure of a writer's heart. I want a novel so poetic that I do not have to turn to the standby anthologies of poetry to satisfy that itch for music, for perfection and economy of phrasing, for exactness of tone. Then, too, I want a book so filled with story and character that I read page after page without thinking of food or drink because a writer has possessed me, crazed with an unappeasable thirst to know what happens next."

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Editors of open anthologies actively seek submissions from all comers, established and unknown. They are willing to read whatever the… — Lynn Abbey
I am also working on a couple of short stories for anthologies. This is new to me and Im enjoying… — Judith Guest
The first writers are first and the rest, in the long run, nowhere but in anthologies. — Carl Clinton Van Doren
Not everything that can be extracted appears in anthologies of quotations, in commonplace books, or on the back of Celestial… — Gary Saul Morson
Anatole France frankly advised, "When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy… — Gary Saul Morson
Now, to read poetry at all is to have an ideal anthology of one's own, and in that possession to… — William Ernest Henley
I think there are just a million interviews in anthologies with famous musicians that are about the music, and they're… — Neil Strauss
However, poetry does not live solely in books or in school anthologies. — Eugenio Montale
Cross-pollination and "contamination" is really important to the health of fiction, and sometimes it's a literal conversation, too, in that… — Jeff VanderMeer
As long as mixed grills and combination salads are popular, anthologies will undoubtedly continue in favor. — Elizabeth Janeway
Since I'm a fan of collections and anthologies, believe that the best writing often shines in shards and galloping stretches,… — James Wolcott
I tended to be drawn to the weirder, darker stuff. Horror and sci-fi anthologies. — Karen Russell

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