Delilah Quotes

Well, I'm a tape-recording nut. I like to play my tapes.

I think history is collective memories. In writing, I'm using my own memory, and I'm using my collective memory.

There are definitely some stories worth telling and I think there's something to be said for telling your story.

There are few joys to compare with the telling of a well-told tale.

Storytelling is important. Part of human continuity.

GoPro lets people take other people along for the ride with them.

I just think that good stories are stories that reflect ourselves back at us and each other.

We all have stories for a reason, and if we keep them to ourselves, I don't feel they would help anybody.

Telling my grandchildren stories of my growing up is some of our favorite times spent together. They want to know what it was like and what I did as a child. They seem to be especially interested in the organic and simplistic setting I grew up in.

I used to take a recorder around and interview my parents and do impressions of my classmates as guests on my show.

I reach out. I ask for help. I tell my story.

Storytelling is how we survive, when there's no feed, the story feeds something, it feeds the spirit, the imagination. I can't imagine life without stories, stories from my parents, my culture. Stories from other people's parents, their culture. That's how we learn from each other, it's the best way. That's why literature is so important, it connects us heart to heart.

I'm called an oral historian, which is something of a joke. Oral history was here long before the pen, long before Gutenberg and the printing press. The difference is I have a tape recorder in my hand.

It's important for us to tell our stories.

If you put your personal stories out there people always connect.

Memoir is about handing over you life to someone and saying, This is what I went through, this is who I am, and maybe you can learn something from it.

That’s how people live, by telling stories. What’s the first thing a kid says when he learns how to talk? “Tell me a story.” That’s how we understand who we are, where we come from. Stories are everything.

They say a story loses something with each telling.

There is a certain embarrassment about being a storyteller in these times when stories are considered not quite as satisfying as statements and statements not quite as satisfying as statistics; but in the long run, a people is known, not by its statements or its statistics, but by the stories it tells.

Storytelling was the most honored of all talents, for it benefited everyone.

People have a lot of shame and suffering around it and I felt that the best thing I could do was to share my experiences, which I have been doing for a long time, and let people know that of all the things that I've endured.

Stories turn anonymous strangers into people who matter.

For in our family an experience was not finished, not truly experienced, unless written down or shared with another.

I felt that there was a beautiful story [ in "All We Had"] to be told and one that was valuable and also one that was a size that I could do as my first.

People become the stories they hear and the stories they tell.