Ancient Quote by Khaled Hosseini

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 very first lessons in the art of telling stories took place in the kitchen . . . my mother and three or four…

— Paule Marshall

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 was always storytelling, since I was a child. I remember myself at 10 years old telling stories to my sisters and brother. This…

— Pedro Almodovar

I am a storyteller, and I grew up with a father who told big-fish stories, so storytelling is very much a part of me.…

— Susan Stroman

I come from a big family where we tell big stories. All we had was the storytelling.

— Maverick Carter

I practiced on the greatest model of storytelling we've got, which is "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey." I told those stories many, many times.

— Philip Pullman

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

— Dianne Reeves

My family were great story-tellers. My mum was one of 12 and they were all fighting to tell stories. You have to tell a…

— Denise Mina

Everybody in my family were great storytellers. My dad and his brothers would just go on and on; they could tell amazing stories. I…

— Irvine Welsh

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

— Rodney Crowell

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

— James Welch