A Quote by John Dufresne

I learned to love stories by listening to them.

John Dufresne

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Learned Listening Love Love Stories Stories Them To Love

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John Dufresne
American - Author
Born: January 30, 1948

Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to them. I suppose it’s an early form of participation in what goes on. Listening children know stories are there. When their elders sit and begin, children are just waiting and hoping for one to come out, like a mouse from its hole.

Eudora Welty

Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to them.

Eudora Welty

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.

Carmen Agra Deedy

I think that a lot of people are going so wrong by analysing music too much and learning from a totally different perspective from the way I learned. I mean, I just learned by listening to people. People I learned from learned by listening to people.

Gary Moore

Maybe more than a teller, I am a story listener. I really enjoy listening to stories. I remember them and keep them in my mind. All of my films are a collection of small stories that have been told to me.

Abbas Kiarostami

The first service that one owes to others in the fellowship consists of listening to them. Just as love of God begins with listening to his word, so the beginning of love for our brothers and sisters is learning to listen to them.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

I learned by listening to other people sing and doing impressions of them. And there are things no one can ever teach you, like phrasing. By listening to Sinatra, for instance - you felt that everything he sang had happened in his life.

Frankie Valli

I love telling stories. You know why I love it? Because people love listening.

Lidia Bastianich

Because of John Williams, I began collecting all kinds of film scores. I listened to them when I fell asleep, and it was through my obsessive listening that I learned what all the different parts of the orchestra were. I learnt a great deal from him by just simply listening.

Michael Giacchino

I really enjoy listening to stories. I remember them and keep them in my mind.

Abbas Kiarostami

There's all sorts of stories about me. I've stopped listening to them. You've got to laugh at them, really.

Shaun Ryder

I learned quickly that if the student's perception is that you're not listening to them, and not understanding them, they discredit you.

Tim Gunn

I learned quickly that if the student’s perception is that you’re not listening to them, and not understanding them, they discredit you.

Tim Gunn

Great stories happen all around you every day. At the time they’re happening, you don’t think of them as stories. You probably don’t think about them at all. You experience them. You enjoy them. You learn from them. You’re inspired by them. They only become stories if someone is wise enough to share them. That’s when a story is born.

Paul Smith

I got into writing because books and stories were always a big part of my life. I loved listening to them and then reading them, and I loved making them up.