Anthropologist Quote by Michael Leunig

As a kid, I liked making up stories, and I wrote a story about a kangaroo and a bat with Christy Chang, and she…

— Aimee Bender

When I write stories I am like someone who is in her own country, walking along streets that she has known since she was…

— Natalia Ginzburg

I first heard the story of Agnes Magnusdottir when I was an exchange student in the north of Iceland.

— Hannah Kent

When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands.

— Chinua Achebe

[My early stories] are the work of a living writer whom I know in a sense, but can never meet.

— Elizabeth Bowen

My maternal granddad, Leonard, was full of amazing stories. He was an orphan, with 11 or 12 brothers and sisters, and he used to…

— Jamie Cullum

“The storyteller has always been a valuable member of society. Even in prehistoric times when men hunted wild beasts and lived in caves they…

— D.E. Stevenson

My wife is Indonesian-Japanese... and what happened is, she found me doing a documentary on pencak silat. And through the process of doing that…

— Gareth Evans

One of the stories that really impressed me was 'Anna Karenina.' As a novel, that made an impression on me, showing me what the…

— Elif Batuman

I'm a story teller. I really know how to tell stories of Africa.

— Angelique Kidjo

Possibly the best thing about the whole experience is that Kang and I are now really good friends. It's as much of a pleasure…

— Deborah Smith

I started studying indigenous cultures and I was really inspired by their life styles and the way that they lived. Part of that was…

— Shailene Woodley