Language Quote by Etgar Keret

I write about people in small towns; I don't write about people living in big cities. My kind of storytelling depends upon people that…

— Lee Smith

People who understand everything get no stories.

— Bertolt Brecht

People who don't have stories in their cultures go nuts.

— Rafe Martin

Writing in English made me become a foreigner in my own country. It helped me create the necessary distance to my homeland.

— Hallgrimur Helgason

When people write to me with stories, they are never ones that work for me. There's something mysterious about which ones catch you.

— Emma Donoghue

Unless I'm writing in the Igbo language, I use a language developed elsewhere, which is English. That affects the way I write. It even…

— Chinua Achebe

I think there is a human instinct to tell stories, no matter who you are or where you live.

— Sarah Kay

I'm a storyteller, and as a story-teller, you see that each country, and therefore the language that it speaks has its very own way…

— Mido Hamada

I always lived in a multilingual society (Polish-Ukrainian, German-Ukrainian, English-Ukrainian), and was open to outside linguistic influences. I think it was within three years…

— Yuriy Tarnawsky

I have often said I come from a family of unreliable narrators. I tend to believe their struggles with racism, identity, nationality do dovetail…

— Luis Alberto Urrea

I've lived a lot with people who speak different languages.

— Alice Rohrwacher

I usually make sure that my stories are from Africa or my own background so as to highlight the cultural background at the same…

— Buchi Emecheta