Jesse L. Martin Quotes

Everybody in my family were great storytellers. My dad and his brothers would just go on and on; they could tell amazing stories. I think it was something to do with the Celtic, oral storytelling tradition. People very much had that propensity towards telling tales.

The great thing is to have been surrounded by stories all my life.

My parents were both storytellers. They always spoke with metaphorical richness.

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

And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.

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 leading me on.

To be able to make up stories has been a great gift to me from my ancestors and from the storytellers who were so numerous at Laguna Pueblo when I was growing up. I learned to read as soon as I could because I wanted stories without having to depend on adults to tell or read stories to me.

There is something in human beings that loves stories.

There might be a proper age to know how to tell a story, but there's no proper age to start telling them.

Humankind has been telling stories forever and will be telling stories forever.

I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.

Stories always seem to get better with age.

I think the story is the most ancient form of human entertainment.

I don't want to be remembered as a writer. I would rather be remembered as a storyteller.

I began telling stories as a volunteer in my daughters' school. But I grew up hearing stories from Cuban and Southern storytellers, and I learned a great deal by just being quiet and listening.

My family were great story-tellers. My mum was one of 12 and they were all fighting to tell stories. You have to tell a good tale or no one is going to listen. You have to make it entertaining and interesting. That's how I learned to tell stories.

As storytellers, you're always somehow creating history.

Storytelling has always been one of my great pleasures.

I come from a family of storytellers. Growing up, my father would make up these stories about how he and my mother met and fell in love, and my mother would tell me these elaborately visual stories of growing up as a kid in New York, and I was always so enrapt.

People need stories; they want stories. They always will.

I want to be remembered as a storyteller.

I never saw myself as much of a storyteller.

Fairy tales and folk tales are part of the DNA of all stories and great fun to write.

I come from a family of storytellers.

My mother was an oral storyteller. She would tell stories over and over again.