About Quote by Elizabeth Warren

My mother was a children's librarian. I remember when traditional stories were revised for modern audiences until they bore only a nodding acquaintance with…

— Patricia Briggs

Our family get-togethers are about the stories such as my uncle who walked across the Indo-Burma border, or a woman who gave birth in…

— Rasika Dugal

“I come from a family of Cherokee master storytellers. Listening to stories, reading them, and creating new tales is my life. These tales reveal…

— Louise Ann Barton

When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands.

— Chinua Achebe

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

My grandmother was born in 1900, and she would regale me with tales I call 'Little House on the Prairie' tales, but they were…

— David Alan Grier

For people who are coming out of an oral tradition, it is very exciting to get into reading and writing and it is quite…

— Chinua Achebe

Most of the things that I remember from childhood wouldn't make a particularly good story: rescuing worms during rainstorms, our schnauzer attacking a wheel…

— Kelly Link

My maternal granddad, Leonard, was full of amazing stories. He was an orphan, with 11 or 12 brothers and sisters, and he used to…

— Jamie Cullum

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

These were our bedtime stories. Tales that haunted our parents and made them laugh at the same time. We never understood them until we…

— Edwidge Danticat

I learned about community organizing from my parents. As a child, their stories were so instructive.

— Cory Booker