Anecdotes Quote by Alice Munro

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 I have.

— Charles Baxter

A good story isn't the one that shuts everyone down and sort of leaves them in silent awe. A good story is one that,…

— Chuck Palahniuk

I'm not really a storyteller myself - I tend to get all tangled up when I try and tell stories.

— Daniel Day-Lewis

(I am) dealing not with the particular anecdote, but rather with the Spirit of Myth, which is generic to all myths at all times.

— Mark Rothko

Sometimes I get the start of a story from a memory, an anecdote, but that gets lost and is usually unrecognizable in the final…

— Alice Munro

Everyone seems quite good at stories and making them up.

— Casey Stoner

It's nice to dig deeper into people who may look one way but always have a story to tell. I obviously write about that…

— Sara Shepard

I'm no good at anecdotes.

— Kelly Macdonald

I just think that good stories are stories that reflect ourselves back at us and each other.

— Elisabeth Moss

I don't tell a story unless I have a very deep bench. If you tell an idiosyncratic story, there's no resonance. People read it…

— Sherry Turkle

“I often forget that other people's stories aren't simply introductions to my own more engaging, more dramatic, more relevant, and better-told tales, but rather…

— Will Schwalbe

I always take a story that's kind of out there, like an urban myth. I take some possibility that people imagine, that they are…

— Cecelia Ahern