Deathbed Quote by Veronica Rossi

Some have said I focus on marginalized communities, but it's not like that was my mission statement. I've just told stories that interest me,…

— Sean Baker

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

It's probably why I'm a short story writer. I tend to remember things in the past in narrative form, in story form, and I…

— Tobias Wolff

Twain is my keystone. He reminds me of my people because that's the way they told stories.

— Joe R. Lansdale

We have to tell the stories of the everyday Americans who are adversely impacted by these policies. That's how we were able to keep…

— Valerie Jarrett

“I know i'm making her sound like something out of a story. But it was the other way around. When my mother told me…

— Naomi Novik

“These were the days of fond promise, when the world was very small and there wasstill magic in it. He told them stories o…

— Iain Banks

I'm a fisherman who likes to observe and tell yarns, and so I told stories about things that I knew about.

— John D. Voelker

It's what people have always done. They have always told stories, put on plays. It's characters and narrative and thought and context and resolution…

— Ken Loach

“David could tell, by looking at her face as she read, whether or not the story contained in the book was living inside her,…

— John Connolly

After I’d told her – the mall, the taxi, Cross stroking my hair – she said, ‘Did he kiss you?’ ‘John and Martin totally…

— Curtis Sittenfeld

My mother told me stories all the time... And in all of those stories she told me who I was, who I was supposed…

— Paula Gunn Allen