I haven't got many anecdotes. Maybe I should do something scandalous. — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
Art isn't anecdote. It's the consciousness we bring to bear in our lives. — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
She had no images of this love. She could offer no anecdotes. It was a belief rather than a memory. — Margaret Atwood 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
Meanwhile with the help of an anecdote I fell in love. Words caravaggio. They have a power. — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
A tax cut is really one of the anecdotes to coming out of an economic illness. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
What was Aristotle’s life?’ Well, the answer lay in a single sentence: ‘He was born, he thought, he died.’ And all the… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
There is no history worthy attention save that of free nations; the history of nations under the sway of despotism is no… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
A typical biography relying upon individuals' notorious memories and the anecdotes they've invented contains a high degree of fiction, yet is considered… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Statements about climate trends must be based on, er, trends. Not individual events or occurrences. Weather is not climate, and anecdotes are… — Chris Mooney Copy Share Image
I'm not an overnight success. My early publishing history, through my first five books, was unfortunate in many respects, typified by a… — John Lescroart Copy Share Image
Films have to find a way to compress many anecdotes into one, or many events into one. Otherwise there is no way… — Rajkumar Hirani 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
Good writing is about finding and exploiting anecdotes that resonate with the reader. In storytelling, it's OK if you only make one… — Ben Clymer Copy Share Image
The 'EU in a Nutshell' is a miscellany of facts and anecdotes about the system which rules us. It's a book you… — Daniel Hannan Copy Share Image
The earliest impetuses for writing, for me, were simply the strange things I happened to notice in my everyday life, stuff I… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
Being an entrepreneur, everyone needs to hear a personal anecdote from you once in a while or see you go out of… — Martin Zwilling 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
With its shrewd analysis and its knowledgeable reflections on the state of the arts, as well as a rich array of anecdotes… — Jonathan Culler Copy Share Image
“Do you think the porter and the cook have no anecdotes, no experiences, no wonders for you? The walls of their minds… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Something about the possession of a book - an object that can contain infinite fables, words of wisdom, chronicles of times gone… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
“An amusing story? She jabs the call button as if poking an eye. She doesn’t want an amusing story, she wants change,… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“Is it always the same story, then? Somebody loves and somebody doesn't, or loves less, or loves someone else. Or someone is… — Renata Adler Copy Share Image
When I was little I knew my father had been an orphan and had lived in an orphanage. I was curious, but… — Gail Carson Levine Copy Share Image
“The office was large, with many women and men at desks, and she learned their names, and presented to them an amiability… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
There is so little to remember of anyone - an anecdote, a conversation at a table. But every memory is turned over… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I tell this anecdote with tongue in cheek at the start of my book William Burroughs and the Secret of Fascination, but… — Oliver Harris 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
A famous anecdote concerning Cuvier involves the tale of his visitation from the devil—only it was not the devil but one of… — Georges Cuvier Copy Share Image
I take pens and I write on the inside of my arm. When I'm with people and somebody says a really fascinating… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
