“The “Bus to Abilene” anecdote reveals our tendency to follow those who initiate action—any action.” — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
You can't throw away years of your life because it makes a funny anecdote. — David Nicholls 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
“As economists like to say, the plural of "anecdote" is not "data.” — Robert Lane Greene Copy Share Image
“A remarkable number of the memoirs of booksellers are basically anecdote delivery devices.” — Travis McDade Copy Share Image
Art isn't anecdote. It's the consciousness we bring to bear in our lives. — Cheryl Strayed 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
Occasionally a single anecdote opens a character; biography has its comparative anatomy, and a saying or a sentiment enables the skilful hand… — Robert Aris Willmott 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
“She wondered if she was in the midst of an anecdote that, for reasons of proximity, she was not yet able to… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
Somewhere, there, is an analogy, in a small way, if you have the patience for it. But I guess it isn't a… — Dorothy Parker 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
“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
“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 have one anecdote about the FBI breaking into an embassy in Washington, and under Hoover, they had this sort of ruse… — Ronald Kessler Copy Share Image
I watched our friends' wary, intelligent faces droop at our tale. Their shock was a mere shadow of our own, resembling more… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
An anecdote is related of Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper (1621-1683), who, in speaking of religion, said, "People differ in their discourse and… — Gilbert Burnet Copy Share Image
Anecdote: A house that is rooted to one spot but can travel as quickly as you change your mind and is complete… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“It wasn’t enough that I had to worry about playing well and winning the game, but I also had to deal with… — Weston Locher Copy Share Image
“The first way not to shake hands is executed by receiving someone’s hand in yours and proceeding to squeeze it tightly, hurting… — Weston Locher Copy Share Image
Anecdote: It is by no means self-evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited; violent physical passions do not… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
It isn't enough to have had an interesting or hilarious or tragic life. Art isn't anecdote. It's the consciousness we bring to… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“It was like when I’d taken a trip to some foreign land and everyone asked about it when I got back: my… — Benjamin Kunkel 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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
“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
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