I can't actually wrap my mind around it easily - I can't really visualize what 2 million books looks like... So I… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
A remarkable memoir that's packed with anecdotes, advice and humor, all while maintaining a high level of dignity and self-awareness. — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
Anecdote: In a controversial way, Comedian and actor Bill Cosby sought to teach his son the pain of being lied to. Convinced… — Bill Cosby 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
Jack Bogle's passionate cry of Enough! contains a thought-provoking litany of life lessons regarding our individual roles in commerce and society. Employing… — David F. Swensen Copy Share Image
You do not conceive a novel as easily as you conceive a child, nor even half as easily as you create nonfiction… — Zelda Popkin Copy Share Image
I'm certainly very influenced by what you would call 'contemporary headline horror,' stuff that is true crime or for one reason or… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
I was kind of reflecting on my life and certain experiences, and you know, when I'm teaching and coaching my partners on… — Derek Hough Copy Share Image
A collection of anecdotes and maxims is the greatest of treasures for the man of the world, for he knows how to… — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Copy Share Image
If some good evidence for life after death were announced, I'd be eager to examine it; but it would have to be… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Ansar is an Arabic term that means helpers or supporters. They were the citizens of Medina who helped Prophet Mohammed upon His… — K. Hari Kumar Copy Share Image
EAT, v.i. To perform successively (and successfully) the functions of mastication, humectation, and deglutition. 'I was in the drawing-room, enjoying my dinner,'… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
My critique of how we deal with drugs in society is just that - that we use these anecdotes to apply to… — Carl Hart 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
“Ida was a natural historian who knew how to throw in enough fiction to keep up dramtic tension. And she was replete… — Marissa Piesman Copy Share Image
It's like that where these little anecdotes come through, and I guess that's what I like about books like that [He Stopped… — Scott McClanahan Copy Share Image
Theology, Mr. Fortune found, is a more accommodating subject than mathematics; its technique of exposition allows greater latitude. For instance when you… — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
Not afraid of poverty and drabness and who is untouched by it, untouched by the drunkenness of her friends; (she) who judges,… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
An essay is a work of literary art which has a minimum of one anecdote and one universal idea. — Carol Bly Copy Share Image
(I am) dealing not with the particular anecdote, but rather with the Spirit of Myth, which is generic to all myths at… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
For years and years I carried these notebooks around with me - I had hundreds of pages of notes, these fragments that… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
Fellini was more in love with breasts than Russ Meyer, more wracked with guilt than Ingmar Bergman, more of a flamboyant showman… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
