whereas there are many people in the world who can give life to others, there are but few who can help others to possess it.
Ruth SawyerOne is so apt to cheapen a thing when one tries hastily to put it into words, and ever afterward it is never quite the same.
Ruth SawyerTo be a good storyteller one must be gloriously alive. It is not possible to kindle fresh fires from burned-out embers. I have noticed that the best of the traditional storytellers whom I have heard have been those who live close to the heart of things-to the earth, the sea, wind and weather. They have been those who knew solitude, silence. They have been given unbroken time in which to feel deeply, to reach constantly for understanding. They have come to know the power of the spoken word. These storytellers have been sailors and peasants, wanderers and fisherman.
Ruth Sawyer