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Quotes About Anthology

We'd rather have satisfaction and the maximum titillation than real information, and so history, I insist to my good friend Steve Welch, isn't a cold sequential list of facts, it's a prize anthology of the best fiction.
~ Poe Ballantine
Money was also allocated for historical research, a worship anthology called Women's Words, and an AIDS outreach ministry.
~ Warren R. Ross
More than any other city, [Paris] has entered the paintings and the novels of those under its sway, so that representation and reality reflect each other like a pair of facing mirrors, and walking Paris is often described as reading, as though the city itself were a huge anthology of tales. It exerts a magnetic attraction over its citizens and its visitors, for it has always been the capital of refugees and exiles as well as of France.
~ Rebecca Solnit
To be fair, much of the Bible is not systematically evil but just plain weird, as you would expect of a chaotically cobbled-together anthology of disjointed documents, composed, revised, translated, distorted and 'improved' by hundreds of anonymous authors, editors and copyists, unknown to us and mostly unknown to each other, spanning nine centuries.
~ Richard Dawkins
And at some point I would like to talk my publisher into doing an anthology of my poetry alongside some teen readers' poetry. It would be fun, and really wonderful to get their stuff out there.
~ Ellen Hopkins
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 making a decent anthology.
~ Neil Marshall
An indispensable anthology of hope and inspiration. Put away your Prozac, and pick up The Impossible Will Take a Little While.
~ Arianna Huffington
by John Updike; he, intent on a paperbound anthology of science fiction stories edited by Hans Stefan Santesson.
~ Edward D. Hoch
Hans Stefan Santesson's science fiction-mystery anthology Crime Prevention in the 30th Century
~ Edward D. Hoch
The animal encounter poem is now so distinct a genre that it would be possible to create a full-length anthology from deer encounter poems alone, and many varieties of experience would emerge from such an exercise.
~ John Burnside
I first came across 'The Lake Isle of Innisfree' in college, with other anthologized poems by Yeats.
~ Billy Collins
To be fair, much of the Bible is not systematically evil but just plain weird, as you would expect of a chaotically cobbled-together anthology of disjointed documents, composed, revised, translated, distorted and 'improved' by hundreds of anonymous authors, editors and copyists, unknown to us and mostly unknown to each other, spanning nine centuries
~ Richard Dawkins
Always let your conscience be your guide is advice of doubtful value. Conscience must be, among other things, a list of sayings, an anthology of quotations and precepts. Where did they come from, and who first wrote them on my empty slate, and why?
~ Richard Mitchell
This marvelous anthology of books and letters called the Bible is all for the sake of astonishment! It's for divine transformation (theosis), not intellectual or "small-self" coziness.
~ Richard Rohr
Now, to read poetry at all is to have an ideal anthology of one's own, and in that possession to be incapable of content with the anthologies of all the world besides.
~ William Ernest Henley
In 1935, Faber & Faber published an anthology entitled 'My Best Western Story' in which the genre's leading practitioners contributed what they considered their finest. Alas, literature the stories ain't; they appear more like fossils from a spent mine.
~ Clive Sinclair
A true quotation cannot be divorced from the character who uttered or scribbled it; it should say as much about the person quoted as about the particular subject referred to, and for this reason an anthology of quotations should be a kind of portrait gallery.
~ Robert Andrews
Cómo he llegado a esto? ¿Cuándo se volvió tan importante para mí el hecho de pisar terreno sólido y familiar? ¿Cómo he llegado a convertirme en uno de esos tipos que compran antologías tipo lo mejor de que anuncia en la televisión a altas horas de la noche?
~ Robert M. Sapolsky
A well-chosen anthology is a complete dispensary of medicine for the more common mental disorders, and may be used as much for prevention as cure.
~ Robert Graves
Most television shows are going to require an actor sign up from four to six years, but an anthology show really amounts to five or six months at the most. I thought serious actors might be attracted to that.
~ Nic Pizzolatto
A well-chosen anthology is a complete dispensary of medicine for the more common mental disorders, and may be used as much for prevention as cure.
~ Robert Graves
Western culture generally, as well as the Christian subculture specifically, has had an unwarranted tendency to think that abstract ideas and facts are the only valid type of knowledge that we possess. Literature challenges that bias, and so does the Bible. The Bible is not a theological outline with proof texts attached. It is an anthology of literature.
~ Leland Ryken
And so it was that I became an anthology piece translated along with many others out of the French into your small arms though I am a phantom
~ Donald Revell
One of the things I am most excited about personally is a five-issue anthology I put together, 'Legends of Red Sonja,' which is full of wonderful little short stories written exclusively by my favorite female writers of comics, prose, and gaming.
~ Gail Simone