Top 1200 Scary Stories Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

If it's scary, it's supposed to be scary. If it's funny, it's supposed to be funny. That's all I try to do.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

I turned down Halloween parties every year, where people wanted zombies raised at the stroke of midnight or some such nonsense. The scarier my reputation got, the more people wanted me to come be scary for them. I'd told Bert I could always go and threaten to shoot all the partygoers, that'd be scary. Bert had not been amused. But he had stopped asking me to do parties.

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

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

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

Stories have inspired me all my life. I like reading about what other people have done and it inspires me to share my own stories, and encourage people to make their own life stories.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

People become the stories they hear and the stories they tell.

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

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

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

Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories.

You learn by writing short stories. Keep writing short stories. The money's in novels, but writing short stories keeps your writing lean and pointed.

Immigrant stories are good stories for everyone to know.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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 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.

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 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.

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.

Sad to think that we won't have any new stories from John Updike, one of the last century's masters. But so many here in the two volumes of his collected stories, 186 by my count, stories to read, reread, savor over the course of a cold season. Updike's genius in the short form spills out of these many, many pages.

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

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

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

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