Exchange Quote by Hannah Kent

A dear friend of my early childhood has worked as an anthropologist in Papua New Guinea for much of her life, and from the…

— Michael Leunig

My mother, as a girl, had remembered this woman from Maine, someone who was part of the extended family somehow, and I recall her…

— Patricia MacLachlan

I read a lot of Icelandic sagas when I was young. I've always been interested in the Viking culture.

— Kristofer Hivju

It was a great joy for me to develop a strong female character in the spirit of an Icelandic woman. Icelandic women tend to…

— Anita Briem

I had this awesome tennis teacher when I was 12 who was Icelandic. He looked like a Viking: long hair, and he was built…

— Eline Powell

My aunt Geraldine was the unofficial historian and storyteller. She had all the information about family members and the gossip that came out of…

— John Edgar Wideman

[Elsa Dorfman]was well known. Certainly in the Boston area, she's well known as a portrait photographer. My wife always wanted to meet her and…

— Errol Morris

So much Western storytelling comes from Scandinavia. I've read that in the past, storytellers would travel to Iceland and exchange stories. It's kind of…

— Richard Dormer

“My wife and I had called on Miss Stein, and she and the friend who lived with her had been very cordial and friendly…

— Ernest Hemingway

“If we look at some of the most celebrated or prolific story originators of all time, we find among them a surprising number of…

— Sacha Coward

She told fortunes for a living. It's a wacky book and was great fun to write. It is very much a look at what…

— Colleen McCullough

I was just fascinated with how everyone else in the world lived, and I was interested in telling their story.

— Michelle Monaghan