About Quote by Reinhold Messner

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

— James Welch

For people who are coming out of an oral tradition, it is very exciting to get into reading and writing and it is quite…

— Chinua Achebe

There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted…

— Aaron Sorkin

I was just fascinated with how everyone else in the world lived, and I was interested in telling their story.

— Michelle Monaghan

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

When you tell a story you automatically talk about traditions, but they're never separate from the people, the human implications. You're talking about your…

— Gayl Jones

I've always been fascinated by the grassroots folktale level of a culture, and as a storyteller, I have to follow what seems to be…

— Robin McKinley

I want to keep telling stories of ordinary people.

— Margot Lee Shetterly

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

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 was brought up telling stories, when I was a kid, in the tiny village where I grew up. Storytelling was a tradition.

— Peter Stormare