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.
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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.
I was always a storyteller. I just didn't know it. I never shared the stories I made up inside my head when I was growing up. I never wrote them down, either. But I can't remember a time when they weren't there.
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.
I listened to a lot of stories when I was a kid. My mother told me stories, and I loved them.
When I was little, I always used to like to tell stories cuz it was entertaining to people.
I'm from the South, so I tend to tell stories. That's how we express ourselves.
I'm not really a storyteller myself - I tend to get all tangled up when I try and tell stories.
I really enjoy listening to stories. I remember them and keep them in my mind.
From Ernest Hemingway's stories, I learned to listen within my stories for what went unsaid by my characters.
I have written stories since I was a child.
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