How do you make a startling, true anecdote into a dramatically satisfying feature film?
One true anecdote concerns his outcry - he would not have termed it sledging - to the Warwickshire batsman Billy Ibadulla.
Example: if you're at a party you might consider telling a funny, and true, anecdote.
I dust off some tried-and-true anecdotes: Remember when you were scared to ride your bike without training wheels?
But even if true, the anecdotes in the New York Times article fall in line with Bezos's view that hardship is the secret to solution.
Most strips focus on some small moment, a true-life anecdote, that sent the author spinning into inexplicable fury or burrowing deep into resignation to keep from exploding.
"I enjoyed mixing facts and fantasy with my opinions, true stories, invented anecdotes and fictional characters," he told the wine blogger Tom Wark in 2009.
Comedienne Amy Poehler debuts on the Celeb 100 this year thanks to the continued success of NBC's Parks & Recreation and a million-dollar book deal with publisher It Books for what's described as an "illustrated, nonlinear diary full of humor and honesty and brimming with true stories, fictional anecdotes and life lessons".
In his books, "almost all details and anecdotes are true.
Neither those statistics nor the anecdotes are true of every home headed by a single parent.
It's exemplary of Mills's approach to her that, when she agrees without inhibition to let Jamie cut school and signs notes to excuse him, the two notes that are sent explain that he was busy working for the Sandinistas and that he was in a small-plane accident — great anecdotes if true, and great lines if not (even though Mills can't be bothered to let on what Jamie was in fact doing).
