Jami Attenberg Quotes

My grandmother told stories; she was very good at that.

My grandmother was not a great storyteller.

Remember Old Nan's stories, Bran. Remember the way she told them, the sound of her voice. So long as you do that, part of her will always be alive in you.

Humanity's legacy of stories and storytelling is the most precious we have. All wisdom is in our stories and songs. A story is how we construct our experiences.

Storytelling is an ancient and honorable act. An essential role to play in the community or tribe. It's one that I embrace wholeheartedly and have been fortunate enough to be rewarded for.

The dead and past stories that I have told again in divers fashions, are not set down without authority.

A good story never dies.

Stories are one of the means by which a culture preserves its identity.

I come from a family of storytellers.

People are hungry for stories. It's part of our very being. Storytelling is a form of history, of immortality too. It goes from one generation to another. -Studs Terkel

We're dead as a species if we don't tell stories, because then we don't know who we are.

Even if you got rid of paper, you would still have story-tellers. In fact, you had the story-tellers before you had the paper.

Each of us has been designed for one of two immortal functions, as either a storyteller or as a cross-legged listener to tales of wonder, love, and daring. When we cease to tell or listen, then we no longer exist as a people.

My background is deep and set in deep time, and in a narrow space, oral traditions going back a long, long time, which I inherited by osmosis.

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.

Passed down from generation to generation, storytelling was an art in my family.

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

I grew up in a family where the love of stories is very strong. And there's also a love of performance. I think one reason stories were so important in my family was that we moved around a lot.

I grew up in a society with a very ancient and strong oral storytelling tradition. I was told stories, as a child, by my grandmother, and my father as well.

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

Our children's children will hear a good story.

I grew up in Sierra Leone, in a small village where as a boy my imagination was sparked by the oral tradition of storytelling. At a very young age I learned the importance of telling stories - I saw that stories are the most potent way of seeing anything we encounter in our lives, and how we can deal with living.

Storytelling is important. Part of human continuity.

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

The same way one tells a recipe, one tells a family history. Each one of us has our past locked inside.