Able Quote by Leslie Marmon Silko

I can't remember a time when I didn't write or make up stories, because it seemed to come with reading.

— Lisa Tuttle

I was telling stories before I could write. I like to tell stories, and I like to talk to things. If you]ve read fairy…

— J. California Cooper

I think I have always wanted to tell stories. My mother was the real catalyst. I kept talking about it and so she pulled…

— Kim Smith

When I was a little kid, before I learned how to write, I would tell stories.

— Amanda Hocking

I've always been into having stories told to me. I was a voracious reader, my father was also a teller of tales; and the…

— Damon Lindelof

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

I learned to separate the story from the writing, probably the most important thing that any storyteller has to learn-that there are a thousand…

— Orson Scott Card

Some stories we know well and some we learn as we go. Being able to shape and share these stories into new perspectives and…

— Garth Kravits

When I was a kid, growing up, I used to write a lot of stories.

— Eoin Macken

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

Reading was a huge part of my life as a child - we were a family of storytellers.

— Sue Monk Kidd

Stories develop from things I read and also from my own experiences and experiences of people I know.

— William Sleator