"I get asked all the time, ‘How did you learn to write and tell stories?’ It was being down at the implement store, listening to the farmers sitting around rolling dice and drinking coffee. Their stories had shape and form and flow, and they often had a payoff. They didn't think of it that way, they just did it."

- Michael Perry on how he learned to be a storyteller.

Full video: https://youtu.be/8oPKVU8Hfnk