Top 1200 Sharing Stories Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

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.

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

It would be nice to abandon the verse-chorus-bridge structure completely, and make it so none of these things are definable. ... Make up new names for them. Instead of a bridge, you can call it a highway, or an overpass. ... Music should never be harmless. ... I remember from my earliest years, people speaking, you know, in a certain kind of rhythm and telling stories and sharing experiences in a way that was different in Indian country than it was other places. And I was really struck by this and obviously very affected by it, because it's always come out in my songs.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

You've got to support male stories and healthy male relationships and things. You can't just be a woman that is only want to support female stories or a guy that's only wanting to support guy stories. It needs to all mix again.

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

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.

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.

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

Told a lot of stories as a child. Not 'Once upon a time' stories but, basically, outright lies. I loved lying and getting away with it!

Sitting in the flickering light of the candles on this kerchief of sand, on this village square, we waited in the night. We were waiting for the rescuing dawn - or for the Moors. Something, I know not what, lent this night a savor of Christmas. We told stories, we joked, we sang songs. In the air there was that slight fever that reigns over a gaily prepared feast. And yet we were infinitely poor. Wind, sand, and stars. The austerity of Trappists. But on this badly lighted cloth, a handful of men who possessed nothing in the world but their memories were sharing invisible riches.

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.

Fairy tales to me are never happy, sweet stories. They're moral stories about overcoming the dark side and the bad.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I was never cold-blooded enough to look for a gap in the market. I loved stories and wanted to tell stories that should be told.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

When we submit our lives to what we read in scripture, we find that we are not being led to see God in our stories but our stories in God's. God is the larger context and plot in which our stories find themselves.

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

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?

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

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

'Monkeys' is made up of nine short stories that tell an overall story. 'Folly' is a series of vignettes all put together to tell a larger story. In 'Lust and Other Stories,' there are nine stories - three, three, three; the beginnings of love, the middles, and the afters.

I admire the ballad form most of all. Stories are irresistible. I've always had a passion for stories, the endings being of particular importance.

Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to them. I suppose it’s an early form of participation in what goes on. Listening children know stories are there. When their elders sit and begin, children are just waiting and hoping for one to come out, like a mouse from its hole.

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

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

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

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.

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

History is beautiful stories or scary stories, yeah.

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.

Immigrant stories are good stories for everyone to know.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

The secret of the Great Stories is that they have no secrets. The Great Stories are the ones you have heard and want to hear again. The ones you can enter anywhere and inhabit comfortably... in the Great Stories you know who lives, who dies, who finds love, who doesn't. And yet you want to know again.

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

Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories.