The short stories tend to be a journalistic gathering of anecdotes that are put together to make something larger. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Anecdotes, personal stories, reminiscences, like biblical parables, are the medium through which faith is restored. Stories are a form of poetry, and… — Peter Block 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
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
What is a nightstand without Mindy Kaling? I dip into her 'Why Not Me?' when I've had a particularly rough day. Her… — Sabaa Tahir Copy Share Image
“Moira became, over the years, increasingly versed in such anecdotes. I didn't much like it, this grudge-holding against the past.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
[Barton ] Gellman printed a great anecdote: he showed two Google engineers a slide that showed how the NSA was doing this,… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
My favorite part of any baseball book - and I read a lot of them - is the anecdotes. I believe there… — Jonathan Weeks Copy Share Image
You must get beyond divertissement, sketch, anecdote, the interesting moment. You must get to the mystery of human personality. What is the… — John L'Heureux 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
When I'm sat in the pub with my mates, they've got their stories: Richard and Tracy have split up, they went to… — David Thewlis 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
“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
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
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
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
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
“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
I like it that they [disciples] feed me and pay for my clothes and protect me. And in return I will do… — Colm Toibin 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
Every entrepreneur faces trade-offs when founding and growing their company. As we discovered at YouTube, those early decisions have far-reaching impacts and… — Chad Hurley Copy Share Image
What a host of little incidents, all deep-buried in the past -- problems that had once been urgent, arguments that had once… — James Hilton Copy Share Image
The Bible is not a book for the faint of heart -- it is a book full of all the greed and… — Rich Mullins 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 am basically the sort of person who has stage-fright teaching. I kind of creep into a classroom. I'm not an anecdote-teller,… — Lydia Davis 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
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
History, if viewed as a repository for more than anecdote or chronology, could produce a decisive transformation in the image of science… — Thomas Kuhn Copy Share Image
Naturally, I mine my girlfriends' lives for good anecdotes and stories - so many of their experiences find their way into my… — Lauren Weisberger Copy Share Image
Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography. — Anita Brookner Copy Share Image
Like most people my age, my job is the main focus of my life. I don't have some kind of jet-setting fabulous… — Anna Paquin 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
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
I tell everyone I interact with what I'm working on and let them bring me anecdotes that illustrate my themes. — Chuck Palahniuk 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
More Americans, and I have my own anecdotes of people that have a friend that never would've had a gun, thought about,… — Chuck Todd 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
There comes a point where certain things are becoming my Achilles heel; you know when you start repeating yourself and saying the… — Karen Elson 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
I don't have a lot of thrilling anecdotes about my career or personal life. All the stuff that is interesting is private… — Natalie Merchant Copy Share Image
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