There’s a saying in the oral tradition of storytelling…

I grew up in Sierra Leone, in a small village where as a boy my imagination was sparked by the oral tradition of storytelling.…

— Ishmael Beah

“Keep in mind that in the whole long tradition of storytelling, from Greek myths through Shakespeare through King Arthur and Robin Hood, this whole…

— Michael Montoure

There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted…

— Aaron Sorkin

“Literature might be called the art of story, and story might in turn be called a universal language, for every culture we know of…

— Andrea A. Lunsford

“A short story is not a portrayal of life. When life becomes disconsolate and the fear for the unknown seeps through the holes on…

— Anu Lal

Our country has the oldest tradition of storytelling, and this was much before writing stories even became a norm.

— Ashwin Sanghi

Tell your story because your story will heal you and it will heal someone else.

— Iyanla Vanzant

“Here, for the first time, I tell the story. The story that was lost, like a needle, in a haystack of reportage.”

— Thampu Valson

I had always felt life first as a story: and if there is a story there is a story-teller

— Anonymous

And it's interesting, but I'm always interested in the story behind the story.

— Maximilian Schell

“She wishes that it were true, all of it. That it were more than just a story. That is was their story.”

— Jennifer E. Smith

Gershwin's melodic gift was phenomenal. His songs contain the essence of New York in the 1920s and have deservedly become classics of their kind,…

— George Gershwin

We have oral traditions in Mali, and songs are passed down and around this way. I think in the US you can play all…

— Vieux Farka Toure

“Here is an oral tradition, legends passed from mouth to mouth, a communal myth created invariably at the base of the mango tree in…

— Ryszard Kapuściński

Rae Chorze-Fwaz has preserved and passed on their secret meditation techniques in oral tradition from the time of Atlantis until he present day.

— Frederick Lenz