Rachel Cusk Quotes

In Haiti, as I understand it, storytelling and history itself are not a business of necessarily elucidating facts or the truth of an incident, but finding the version that is most entertaining and therefore will get retold and live in immortality.

I never saw myself as much of a storyteller.

Throughout history, story telling was at the very beginning of life.

There are some people who believe that these are not real stories with real people, but they actually are.

Stories always seem to get better with age.

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

The human race has been telling stories since it began.

I tell stories. That's what I do. I've always told stories.

The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.

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

Leon Uris is a storyteller, in a direct line from those men who sat around fires in the days before history and made the tribe more human.

I want to be remembered as a storyteller.

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

You become big only when you have great stories to tell.

George Clinton is the best storyteller in the world.

Stories only happen to those who are able to tell them.

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.

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

Oral storytelling goes back so long ago, and those stories that were told orally were always layered and changed with time.

Storytelling is the important thing.

Apparently I'm well-known for my stories, my raconteur tales, that sort of thing.

I'm fascinated with the stories that we tell. Real histories become fantasies and fairy tales, morality tales and fables. There's something interesting and funny and perverse about the way fairytale sometimes passes for history, for truth.

Legends die hard. They survive as truth rarely does.

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.