Cullen Bunn Quotes

Everyone seems quite good at stories and making them up.

As a child, I was fortunate enough to be close to family members who were - and still are - great storytellers. I was a gullible country boy from Rocky Mount, Virginia, and I believed every folktale they told me, no matter how fantastic.

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

I used to tell strange, wild, improbable tales akin to ghost stories, and discovered a taste for spinning yarns.

I can make up stories with the best of them. I've been telling stories since I was a little kid.

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

When I'm writing, what I pretend subconsciously is that we're cavemen, we're sitting around the fire, and I'm telling you stories. If I bore you, you're probably going to pick up a big club and hit me over the head.

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.

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

I come from a long line of serial embellishers. Sometimes a good story's got a ghost in it; sometimes a panther chases my Uncle Bill and Fred Price home from a coon hunt.

I'm just a story teller.

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.

You see, I was told stories, we were all told stories as kids in Nigeria. We had to tell stories that would keep one another interested, and you weren't allowed to tell stories that everybody else knew. You had to dream up new ones.

Whether it is the cavemen in the caves thousands of years ago, Shakespeare plays, television, movies and books, stories and characters take us on a journey. All I do is tell those stories without scripts and without actors.

There is something in human beings that loves stories.

Storytelling isn't an Escher staircase.

When my sister and I were very young, my father used to tell us fairy stories that he'd made up. My mother was always telling him that he should write them down, but he would say, 'Well, they've all been done before. There are so many blooming books in the world - why should I write another one?'

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

I'm a good storyteller.

I'm just a storyteller.

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

I listened to a lot of stories when I was a kid. My mother told me stories, and I loved them.

Writing stories is the habit of lying put to good use.

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

I really love storytelling, and I love the stories as they reveal themselves. It's an incredibly nourishing process; it's probably the closest I come to having a religion.