Nonfiction narratives are really powerful and valid in themselves. But one thing that you don't get sometimes from the more clinical or… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
I'm not funny in person. I mean I'm really not. I'm one of those people who always screw up anecdotes. — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
There is something about the creative process... which is that you can't talk about it. You try to think of anecdotes about… — Betty Comden Copy Share Image
Leonard Cohen can give you "Leonard Cohen" - the self-deprecating wit, the slow, considered speech, the perfectly-honed anecdote - Tom Waits is… — Sylvie Simmons Copy Share Image
How idle a boast, after all, is the immortality of a name! Time is ever silently turning over his pages; we are… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
The Dance: A minimum of explanation, a minimum of anecdotes - and a maximum of sensations. — Maurice Bejart Copy Share Image
After a person dies, his biographers feel free to give him a glittering list of intimate friends. Anecdotes are so much tastier… — Louise Brooks Copy Share Image
It is funny, but it strikes me that a person without anecdotes that they nurse while they live, and that survive them,… — Sebastian Barry Copy Share Image
Due to the potent combination of my sexual recklessness and the slutty nature of some of the girls I have slept with,… — Tucker Max Copy Share Image
Anecdotes and maxims are rich treasures to the man of the world, for he knows how to introduce the former at fit… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
He sits in his car at traffic lights on his way out sometimes and tries to estimate how many times he has… — Elliot Perlman Copy Share Image
Bill Pearson is definitely a man to talk to, especially in the afternoon when he's had a couple of drinks because he's… — Duncan Jones Copy Share Image
Well, politics is much more severe than entertainment. You have to hit those points, in politics, word for word. You have to… — Matt Walsh Copy Share Image
Anecdotes don't make good stories. Generally I dig down underneath them so far that the story that finally comes out is not… — Alice Munro 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
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
I don't want names, but you have to have bumped into some pretty nasty artists with pretty big chips on their shoulders.… — Patrick Stump 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
Photography has arrived at the point where it is capable of liberating painting from all literature, from the anecdote, and even from… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
This [Thelonious Monk: The Life And Times Of An American Original] is another one of those books with the perfect blend of… — Scott McClanahan Copy Share Image
Baseball is more like a novel than a war. It is like an ongoing, hundred-year work of art, peopled with thousands of… — Luke Salisbury Copy Share Image
The age-long history of thinking on gravitation, too, was erased from the collective consciousness, and that force somehow became the serendipitous child… — Lucio Russo Copy Share Image
Always have a book at hand, in the parlor, on the table, for the family; a book of condensed thought and striking… — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
In a faraway land called 'pre-2000,' what Earthlings now call blogging was called 'keeping a diary.' It's hard work to do well.… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
