# Quote — Leslie Marmon Silko, Storyteller

> The story was the important thing and little changes here and there were really part of the story. There were even stories about the different versions of stories and how they imagined the differing versions came to be. (p227)

- Author: [Leslie Marmon Silko](https://www.leafyquotes.com/leslie-marmon-silko.md)
- Book: [Storyteller](https://www.leafyquotes.com/leslie-marmon-silko/storyteller.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Leslie_Marmon_Silko#Storyteller_(1981)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/leslie-marmon-silko/storyteller/the-story-was

## More from this book

> She was an old woman now, and her life had become memories. (beginning of "Lullaby")

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/leslie-marmon-silko/storyteller/she-was-an-old.md)

> This book is dedicated to the storytellers
>
> as far back as memory goes and to the telling
>
> which continues and through which they all live
>
> and we with them.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/leslie-marmon-silko/storyteller/this-book-is-dedicated.md)

> "Anybody can act violently - there is nothing to it; but not every person is able to destroy his enemy with words." (p222)

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/leslie-marmon-silko/storyteller/anybody-can-act.md)