Storytelling Quote by Robert Penn Warren

Storytelling and copulation are the two chief forms of amusement in the South. They’re inexpensive and easy to procure.

— Robert Penn Warren

The storytelling tradition that you bring from the South, I don't know where it arose, but it's still there. You can't go to the…

— Charles Kuralt

Storytelling is a very old human skill that gives us an evolutionary advantage. If you can tell young people how you kill an emu,…

— Margaret Atwood

Many Southern writers must have learned the art of storytelling from listening to oral tales. I did. It gave me the knowledge that the…

— Erskine Caldwell

In Harlan, Kentucky, we told stories the way some people play music. ... In the mountains, storytelling is truly an art form, and as…

— Maxine Cheshire

Storytelling is essentially what we do.

— Nathan Phillips

I always thought storytelling was like juggling [...] You keep a lot of different tales in the air, and juggle them up and down,…

— Salman Rushdie

“it is a wretched thing when amusement becomes a vocation. Amusement should be used to do us good "like a medicine"; it must never…

— Charles H. Spurgeon

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

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 like narrative storytelling as being part of a tradition, a folk tradition.

— Bruce Springsteen

Well, I suppose I'm interested in ways of storytelling and in stories that are about storytelling.

— Neil Jordan