Behind Quote by Kimberly Willis Holt

I'm from the South, so I tend to tell stories. That's how we express ourselves.

— Faith Prince

Southerners love a good tale. They are born reciters, great memory retainers, diary keepers, letter exchangers . . . great talkers.

— Eudora Welty

In the South, we tell stories. We tell stories if you're in a sales position, if you're in a retail position, you lure your…

— Tate Taylor

The movies I've made about the South, they were my experience and it's something that I know.

— Billy Bob Thornton

I love my people's history. I feel a huge responsibility to tell the stories of my past and my ancestors' past.

— Lynn Nottage

I definitely feel like people in the South are a little more raw. Our whole swag, the way we talk... When I go to…

— Megan Thee Stallion

Southerners have this love of embellishment. Even when you read a police report, there's some backstory.

— Karin Slaughter

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

— Dianne Reeves

I had been to the South many times and I thought I knew what the South was, but not until you live with people…

— Genevieve Gorder

I come from a family that raised me with good southern values.

— Lara Trump

I'm nuts about the South - the people, the language, the food, the land, the stories and writers that come from there - but…

— Elizabeth Berg

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