Meanwhile with the help of an anecdote I fell in love…

“Birds prefer trees with dead branches,’ said Caravaggio. ‘They have complete vistas from where they perch. They can take off in any direction.”

— Michael Ondaatje

“Caravaggio was constantly diverted by the human element during burglaries. Breaking into a house during Christmas, he would become annoyed if the Advent calendar…

— Michael Ondaatje

“The man named Caravaggio pushes open all the windows in the room so he can hear the noises of the night. He undresses, rubs…

— Michael Ondaatje

I am opposed, naturally, to regurgitating anecdote or any other form of received wisdom, unless it is characterized as such.

— John Thorn

Good anecdote--bad reality.

— Carrie Fisher

I watched our friends' wary, intelligent faces droop at our tale. Their shock was a mere shadow of our own, resembling more the goodwilled…

— Ian Mcewan

Anecdote: It is by no means self-evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited; violent physical passions do not in themselves…

— T. S. Eliot

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 not that…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Anecdote: A house that is rooted to one spot but can travel as quickly as you change your mind and is complete in itself…

— Virginia Woolf

The plural of anecdote is not data.

— Marc Bekoff

Sometimes ... the short short appears to rest on nothing more than a fragile anecdote which the writer has managed to drape with a…

— Irving Howe

An anecdote is related of Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper (1621-1683), who, in speaking of religion, said, "People differ in their discourse and profession about…

— Gilbert Burnet

Somewhere, there, is an analogy, in a small way, if you have the patience for it. But I guess it isn't a very good…

— Dorothy Parker

Art isn't anecdote. It's the consciousness we bring to bear in our lives.

— Cheryl Strayed

Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit,

— Mark Rothko