Church Quote by John Edgar Wideman

My mother was an oral storyteller. She would tell stories over and over again.

— Rodney Crowell

I was very close to my grandmother, Agnes Parry. She was a typical matriarchal leader of the family and the community. People looked up…

— Michael Ball

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 come from a family of storytellers. My grandmother was great at telling stories, and my mother was an amazing storyteller.

— Dianne Reeves

For me, as a documentary filmmaker, I'm interested in telling stories of real people whose experiences tell us something about ourselves or our history,…

— Kristi Jacobson

As a child, I was fortunate enough to be close to family members who were - and still are - great storytellers. I was…

— Jesse L. Martin

There was Uncle Ken of mine about whom I wrote a lot of stories. I can always write stories about uncles and aunts and…

— Ruskin Bond

I am definitely a storyteller, but probably not a traditional Storyteller.

— James Welch

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

Modern storytellers are the descendants of an immense and ancient community of holy people, troubadours, bards, griots, cantadoras, cantors, traveling poets, bums, hags and…

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

I'm all about the story. And the stories I remember tend to be the ones of sorrow, or family history, or revelation of the…

— Fiona Bruce

My early stories revolved around reality and faith. I wrote a series of stories about the darker aspects of Christian myth: a woman who…

— Karin Tidbeck