My very first lessons in the art of telling stories took place in the kitchen . . . my mother and three… — Paule Marshall Copy Share Image
Following the invention of writing, the special form of heightened language, characteristic of the oral tradition and a collective society, gave way… — Harold Innis Copy Share Image
“Indeed, if these final decades of the millennium have taught us anything, it must be that oral tradition never was the ‘other’… — E. Anne Mackay Copy Share Image
People get strange about whether you've written your own songs, which seems really stupid considering that, especially in Country Music, it's about… — Neko Case Copy Share Image
People say modernism killed poetry for them: it doesn't rhyme, it doesn't touch a popular musical oral tradition. Years ago, you memorized… — Campbell McGrath Copy Share Image
Language pedants hew to an oral tradition of shibboleths that have no basis in logic or style, that have been defied by… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
A necessary part of our intelligence is on the line as the oral tradition becomes less and less important. There was a… — Wes Jackson Copy Share Image
For people who are coming out of an oral tradition, it is very exciting to get into reading and writing and it… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
My love of storytelling comes from oral tradition, the stories from my grandmother and conversations with [my] mother. The world is full… — Lucrecia Martel Copy Share Image
“The life of my people is to remember forever; each head granary is full. The life of your people is to forget:… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Americans, more than any other culture on earth, are cookbook cooks; we learn to make our meals not from any oral tradition,… — John Thorne Copy Share Image
According to the oral tradition of Witches, we were once the priests and priestesses of a peasant Pagan religion. Members of this… — Raven Grimassi Copy Share Image
“I wish I’d paid better attention. I didn’t yet think of time as finite. I didn’t fully appreciate the stories she told… — Jessica Maria Tuccelli Copy Share Image
