A Quote by Katherine Dunn

I come from a family of great readers and storytellers.

Katherine Dunn

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Come Family Great Readers Storytellers

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Katherine Dunn
American - Novelist
October 24, 1945 - May 11, 2016

I come from a family of storytellers. My grandmother was great at telling stories, and my mother was an amazing storyteller.

Dianne Reeves

I come from a family of storytellers.

Charlie McDowell

When you come from a family of storytellers, you're doomed. You just have to tell stories.

Patricia Polacco

I never thought about what I would write. I just come from such a big family of storytellers.

Molly Antopol

Writers are storytellers. So are readers.

Oliver North

I come from a big family of storytellers and, growing up, I liked hearing about the years before I was born.

Molly Antopol

It's not an accident that both my sister and I are writers. Our parents created an accidental Petri dish. My family has great storytellers, and I grew up in a very funny, conversational house and didn't have television. This small family farm was a bubble world that didn't have much to do with reality.

Elizabeth Gilbert

I think our storytellers - our songwriters should be great storytellers, and they should be mountain climbers and explorers, because music is something that can cross all different borders.

Jason Mraz

I come from a family of readers. Our house smelled of book.

Megan Abbott

My family are all storytellers, and I think I inherited a lot more of that gene than other people in my family. I guess I was fun to have around.

John C. Reilly

I don't come from a family of readers - in fact, my parents are unable to read the books in English.

Christopher Castellani

I was the only one silly enough to carry it on to the professional level, but I would say most of my family - and my extended family - are storytellers. And really, that's just what acting is.

Genevieve O'Reilly

I like the fact that I'm from the South and that I have this rich history behind me. I come from a family of storytellers. They can't just tell you how someone went to the store. They have to tell you who they saw, what they were wearing, what they said, what they had in their grocery cart.

Kimberly Willis Holt

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.