Top 1200 Horror Stories Quotes & Sayings - Page 10

If you're a writer, you know that the stories don't come to you - you have to go looking for them. The old men in the lobby: that's where the stories were.

I love being the underdog. It's one of the reason I like making horror movies, because a lot of people don't like them or are prejudiced against them. So it's one of the many reasons I like horror and it's also the reason I like low budget, because it automatically makes us the underdog.

Stories are the wildest things of all. Stories chase and bite and hunt.

I feel that, as a person of color, I've always been interested in the stories that are quiet and the stories that often get overlooked.

I've been asked countless times, 'Why are you drawn to horror films? Why do you think women are drawn to horror films?' And it's because, in a way, it's one of the few genres that tells it like it is. A lot of times, women do feel like they're running for their lives somehow.

I could read at a very early age and I loved stories, losing myself in stories, novels.

I have always wanted to tell stories. Even as a classical dancer, I revel in telling stories through my dance.

What I like in comedies are really two things: stories that are character-driven and stories that are rooted in authenticity.

All I wanted to do was read, to be told stories. Stories were full of excitement and emotions and characters that entertained and often inspired.

A lot of stories that have fascinated me are tabloid stories that have come from other newspapers, like 'The New York Times.'

I used to write stories. Handwriting stories in school were a big deal for me. That's kind of what I did.

As human beings, we are nothing but the stories we live and die by — so you’d better be careful what stories you tell yourself.

You have to be driven by the stories that you want to tell. You can't simply be responding, or there won't be any real heart to those stories anymore.

I'm a storyteller. I'm not like any other comic. I tell detailed stories - not made-up stuff, but true stories.

We cheer everyone who goes off to Hollywood and tells American stories but telling Australian stories is the greatest thing you can do.

We speak of stories ending, when in truth it is we who end. The stories go on and on.

I think it's why we're able to look at with comic book stories or origin stories, why is it that we can keep retelling these stories over and over? And hopefully it's because it hits something so universal and so primal inside of us that we actually yearn for that same story over and over. But toned and different form, and updated and modernized, and I can go into the specifics.

Every woman should have a daughter to tell her stories to. Otherwise, the lessons learned are as useless as spare buttons from a discarded shirt. And all that is left is a fading name and the shape of a nose or the color of hair. The men who write the history books will tell you the stories of battles and conquests. But the women will tell you the stories of people's hearts.

Immigrant stories are good stories for everyone to know.

What's so valuable about HBO is they tell stories. We learn from stories.

We interpret the world through stories... everybody makes in their own way sense of things, but if you have stories it helps.

Everyone has stories but they don't know how to tell these stories.

I look for a good story. Usually the best stories are the ones that are unbelievably true. 'Soul Surfer' is one of those stories.

When I tell stories about Iraq, the ones people react to are always the stories of violence. This is strange for me.

I love stories and acting is a way to tell stories. Everyone assumes I've done it my whole life.

I just think that good stories are stories that reflect ourselves back at us and each other.

I don't think we'll ever lose the desire for people to tell stories or to hear stories or to be entrapped in a beautiful story.

People need stories; they want stories. They always will.

There is no universal gay experience. All stories are relevant, and all stories are needed.

We are storied folk. Stories are what we are; telling and listening to stories is what we do.

In the end all we have...are stories and methods of finding and using those stories.

The '80s just had this sense of outrageous fun coupled with great stories and characters. Then there's the practical effects and buckets of gore in movies. These are movies that, for the most part, still stand up to this day. But I guess the real reason for my love and obsession with this period is these were my first horror movies. I was a teenager during the '80s and I think spending that part of your life in that particular time really has an impact on you for the rest of your life.

Along with supernature and science, there is one other major source of horror movies disorder: the human psyche, most commonly homicidal psychosis. Unlike 'mad' scientists, horror-movies madmen are not visionary obsessives, glorifying in scientific reason as they single-mindedly purse their researches. They are, rather, victims of overpowering impulses that well up from within; monsters brought forth by the sleep of reason, not by its attractions.

If you're a writer you know that the stories don't come to you, you have to go looking for them. The old men in the lobby: that's where the stories were.

Stories aren't about things. Stories are things. Stories aren't about actions. Stories are, unto themselves, actions.

In making up stories, as in reading stories, I could create a contained world in which an experience is shared in its entirety.

I don't want to do stories that don't have a heart. I'm just not going to be satisfied with stories where I can't be passionate about the subject, where I can't make a difference.

Good writers show rather than tell. Stories are told in action. Life stories are no different.

Do goofy stories make people nice? What if, in their goofiness, these stories somehow inspire that in the right way. Is that a social good?

I write almost everything, actually. Songs, poems, stories. And stories out of every genre, too.

The only reason we find structure in stories is because it's there naturally in human interaction, and in the way that people tell stories.

History is beautiful stories or scary stories, yeah.

The stories in 'Parenthood' are so much the stories of our lives. And the people who have worked on the show feel very connected to these characters.

I just feel so lucky to tell stories and make up stories and share them with people.

It's important to tell meaningful stories and to find new ways to communicate those stories to people.

We evolved to make sense of this nonlinear and unpredictable world with stories. These stories are often very powerful.

I have always thought it morally unacceptable to kill stories, not to run stories, that people have risked their lives to get.

Horror is the future. And you cannot be afraid. You must push everything to the absolute limit, or else life will be boring. People will be boring. Horror is like a serpent: always shedding its skin, always changing. And it will always come back. It can't be hidden away like the guilty secrets we try to keep in our subconscious.

It sounds corny, but I think people need stories to process the world. That's our business. That's the job we're in. We tell stories.

Writers, good ones, don't tell stories. Characters show stories.

Granted there are only seven stories in the universe. And I agree with that. But give me a great variation of those stories. And literate.

My life isn't very racy or exciting so I make things up, tell stories. I like telling stories.

The Maigret stories are all very different in terms of the content and the way that the stories are told. They're not what I would call formulaic.

I would say try to tell stories that you care about as opposed to stories that you think will sell.

Almost all serious stories in the world are stories of failure with a death in it. But there is more lost paradise in them than defeat.

I can make up stories with the best of them. I've been telling stories since I was a little kid.

We forget old stories, but those stories remain the same.

I got a Super 8 camera when I was eight years old, and I just wanted to tell stories - I love telling stories.

Horror is so basic. You'd get an adrenaline jolt from watching your mom get gored by a woolly mammoth. A horror movie gives you the adrenaline without having to have your mom get gored.

Because some stories end, but old stories go on, and you gotta dance to the music if you want to stay ahead