"Tell a story / Tell your story / Tell your story to anyone who'll listen / Tell your story / Don't stop talking just tell your story walking" - Deb Talan
"Storytelling, in my family, was highly prized. While my father walked home from work he rearranged the events of his day to make them more entertaining, and my mother could make a trip to the supermarket sound like an adventure. If this required minor adjustment of fact, nobody much minded: it was certainly preferable to boring your audience....
This book is absolutely in the family tradition. Everything here is true, but it may not be entirely factual. In some cases I have compressed events; in others I have made two people into one. I have occasionally embroidered.
I learned early on that the most important thing in life is a good story."
- Ruth Reichl, Tender at the Bone: Growing up at the Table, from the Author's Note
Day of the Quote was originally started as a repository for things Gretzky overheard people say during the day.
It then became a place she linked to things she found amusing, good eating recommendations, interesting events, and good book reviews....
And it became a place to tell stories. Stories of people she knows, stories of friends, stories of people she wishes were her friends. Like Elie Wiesel once said, some stories are true that never happened. Readers looking for entirely non-fiction text here will probably be disappointed. Gretzky attempts to be entirely truthful in her stories, but there are moments where she relays events as truthfully as possible without all the facts straight.
By Gretzky
