David Mixner Quotes

In my family, telling stories is just a way of life.

Storytelling is important. Part of human continuity.

Throughout history, story telling was at the very beginning of life.

I like narrative storytelling as being part of a tradition, a folk tradition.

It's good to pass on stories.

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

My father who in this case was an obsessive life-long storyteller, and by a very peculiar trick of my father's. My father would tell a very, very long story, and the punch line would be in Yiddish.

Storytelling was a way to see the world bigger than the one you were looking at, and that had great appeal for me. I think, since that was part of my upbringing, it became part of me, and I wanted to pass it along to my kids and my grandkids.

Leon Uris is a storyteller, in a direct line from those men who sat around fires in the days before history and made the tribe more human.

I was brought up telling stories, when I was a kid, in the tiny village where I grew up. Storytelling was a tradition.

You're never going to kill storytelling, because it's built into the human plan. We come with it.

Oral storytelling goes back so long ago, and those stories that were told orally were always layered and changed with time.

My background is deep and set in deep time, and in a narrow space, oral traditions going back a long, long time, which I inherited by osmosis.

I'm one of these children who grew up at the knee of my grandmother and her elder sister, listening to very old people talk about their memories.

From the beginning of time, we've told stories, Shamans and Medicine People, and not to be pompous about it, but I feel like that is the lineage I take down and where I come from. There is magic to storytelling.

I think of myself... as a troubadour, a village storyteller, the guy in the shadows of the campfire.

Storytelling is an ancient and honorable act. An essential role to play in the community or tribe. It's one that I embrace wholeheartedly and have been fortunate enough to be rewarded for.

I'm not sure I would make a direct connection between having press attention as a young person and being interested in the media as an older person. I came to it more organically, coming from a family of Irish Catholic storytellers. Storytelling is a pastime and important part of my family's history and culture.

My mother is the best storyteller. And her mother was too.

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.

Up to 1870, it was equally said of France and of Italy that they possessed no folk-tales. Yet, within fifteen years from that date, over 1000 tales had been collected in each country.

Before we were born, a whole society of storytellers was already here. The storytellers who were here before us taught us how to be human.

The Celtic folk-tales have been collected while the practice of story-telling is still in full vigour, though there is every sign that its term of life is already numbered.

The human race has been telling stories since it began.

The dead and past stories that I have told again in divers fashions, are not set down without authority.