Art isn't anecdote. It's the consciousness we bring to bear in our lives. — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“A remarkable number of the memoirs of booksellers are basically anecdote delivery devices.” — Travis McDade Copy Share Image
As you get older, your injuries don't come with an anecdote any more, they just come. — Frank Skinner Copy Share Image
You can't throw away years of your life because it makes a funny anecdote. — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“As economists like to say, the plural of "anecdote" is not "data.” — Robert Lane Greene Copy Share Image
Meanwhile with the help of an anecdote I fell in love. Words caravaggio. They have a power. — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“The “Bus to Abilene” anecdote reveals our tendency to follow those who initiate action—any action.” — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
Sometimes I get the start of a story from a memory, an anecdote, but that gets lost and is usually unrecognizable in… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
I am opposed, naturally, to regurgitating anecdote or any other form of received wisdom, unless it is characterized as such. — John Thorn Copy Share Image
“The anecdote was funny, but as my father gazed across the river at the university of his youth, his Russian life was… — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
“I was fired ignominiously from the Junior School Choir for being so off tune that the choir mistress declared she couldn't even… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“I remember calling the council's cemetery department to ask about body decomposition in different soil types. Once they had verified that I… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“This is the worst of our ways of remembering--this tendency to prod the crust of anecdote in the hope of releasing a… — Kamila Shamsie Copy Share Image
You think that what I've told you is an anecdote. But really it isn't. It's my whole life. It's the only story… — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I get the start of a story from a memory, an anecdote, but that gets lost and is usually unrecognizable in… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
Sometimes ... the short short appears to rest on nothing more than a fragile anecdote which the writer has managed to drape… — Irving Howe Copy Share Image
“The man beside me, apropos of nothing, raises his hand and says that there is 'a story' that man started society because… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
“After all, this was the place where I’d had my first meaningful conversation with a female, it was the site of a… — Weston Locher Copy Share Image
“The prevailing taste of the public for anecdote has been censured and ridiculed by critics, who aspire to the character of superior… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
“These handkerchief gardens are a traditional German solution to apartment dwellers' yearning for a tool shed and a vegetable garden. They make… — Anna Funder Copy Share Image
A poison can hardly be called safe if for some reason specific to me it's ineffective against, say, my body. But the… — Zia Haider Rahman Copy Share Image
“The anecdote appears in Théophile Gautier's 1859 biography of Balzac. I wondered if it could be shown that Babel had read Gautier.… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
“Later you referenced that anecdote to illustrate that my expectations were always preposterously outsized; that my very ravenousness for the exotic was… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“My cousin Helen, who is in her 90s now, was in the Warsaw ghetto during World War II. She and a bunch… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Always preoccupied with his profound researches, the great Newton showed in the ordinary-affairs of life an absence of mind which has become… — Camille Flammarion Copy Share Image
“I would go to parties and say I was an editor, and people, especially women – and that was important to me… — Peter Ferry Copy Share Image
A good story isn't the one that shuts everyone down and sort of leaves them in silent awe. A good story is… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Word from the outside, whether it arrived in a mail sack or a news report, seldom overshadowed the facts of our lives.… — Judy Blunt Copy Share Image
“In the middle section of the book Mirabelle breaks into not one, but two houses near Belgravia Books. I had fun scoping… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“The usual short story cannot have a complex plot, but it often has a simple one resembling a chain with two or… — Irving Howe Copy Share Image
I think my first general rule is that most of my experiences are not that interesting. It's usually other people's experiences. It's… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“[The cats] scamper in front of my legs, causing me to fall and face plant into whatever furniture is closest. They especially… — Weston Locher Copy Share Image
“Our family was nearly torn apart on several occasions by arguments started when the refrigerator door was open for what my father… — Weston Locher Copy Share Image
If you have an anecdote from one source, you file it away. If you hear it again, it may be true. Then… — Anthony Holden Copy Share Image
![“Sometimes I get the start of a story from a memory, an anecdote, but that gets lost and is usually unrecognizable in the final story." [ A Conversation with Alice Munro , BookBrowse, 1998]” quote by Alice Munro](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/ba5/alice-munro-1231_anecdote_sometimes-i-get-the-start-of-a-story-fro_2419813.png)
![“[The cats] scamper in front of my legs, causing me to fall and face plant into whatever furniture is closest. They especially like to play this game when I’m carrying piping hot coffee.” quote by Weston Locher](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/df9/weston-locher-51973_anecdote_the-cats-scamper-in-front-of-my-legs-cau_489229.jpg)
