Country Quote by Charles Kuralt

I was brought up telling stories, when I was a kid, in the tiny village where I grew up. Storytelling was a tradition.

— Peter Stormare

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

— Ashwin Sanghi

Many Southern writers must have learned the art of storytelling from listening to oral tales. I did. It gave me the knowledge that the…

— Erskine Caldwell

Coming from the South and growing up in L.A. where it was so segregated - worse than the South in many ways - all…

— Charles Burnett

The tradition of the South is not urban... I think we are a region of storytellers, naturally, just from our tribal instincts. We did…

— Harper Lee

I grew up in a society with a very ancient and strong oral storytelling tradition. I was told stories, as a child, by my…

— Khaled Hosseini

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

I come out of a strong oral tradition in the South.

— Horton Foote

I'm from the South, so I tend to tell stories. That's how we express ourselves.

— Faith Prince

I like narrative storytelling as being part of a tradition, a folk tradition.

— Bruce Springsteen

In the South, we tell stories. We tell stories if you're in a sales position, if you're in a retail position, you lure your…

— Tate Taylor

Storytelling and copulation are the two chief forms of amusement in the South. Theyre inexpensive and easy to procure.

— Robert Penn Warren