Edwidge Danticat Quotes About Storytellers

Quotes about: Storytellers

• It's hard to tell what people will do with the word and how they'll be circulating it but I think the storytellers and the stories themselves will always be there.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Thinking, People, Stories

  "A Voice in Haiti’s Chorus". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. 2010.

• My models were oral, were storytellers. Like my grandmothers and my aunts. It's true, a lot of people in my life were not literate in a formal sense, but they were storytellers. So I had this experience of just watching somebody spin a tale off the top of her head. I loved that.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Grandmother, Aunt, People

  Interview with David Barsamia, progressive.org. October 1, 2003.

• Whole interaction between the storyteller and the listeners had a very powerful influence on me.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Powerful, Influence, Storyteller

  Interview with David Barsamian, progressive.org. October 1, 2003.

• Even when I think of writing fiction, it's being kind of a liar, a storyteller, a weaver, and there's that sense of how much of this is your life. The story is a way you unravel your life from behind a mask.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Liars, Writing, Thinking

  Interview David Barsamian, progressive.org. October 1, 2003.

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