Ghost Stories famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I've been reading ghost stories ever since I could read. I'm immensely curious about ghosts and UFOs and all that stuff, but I'm a very hard-headed person.
-- Barbara Mertz -
There's always been a need for horror fiction, though--ghost stories have been a staple of every human society since the beginning of recorded literature--and while commercially the field may have its ups and downs, it will never go away. Hell, look at the Bible: gods, devils, ghosts, witches, giants, resurrections. That's one big horror story. And it's the most popular book on the planet.
-- Bentley Little -
Science fiction is no more written for scientists than ghost stories are written for ghosts.
-- Brian Aldiss -
So what Ghost Stories means to me is like, you've got to open yourself up to love and if you really do, of course it will be painful at times, but then it will be great at some point.
-- Chris Martin -
The idea of Ghost Stories is how to turn something bad into something that gives you an uplift.
-- Chris Martin -
What I'm always trying to do with every book is to recreate the effect of the stories we heard as children in front of campfires and fireplaces - the ghost stories that engaged us.
-- Chuck Palahniuk -
While Max appears to greatly admire Wallace as a writer and feel compassion for him as a man, he is never starry-eyed, or pulls his punches. Every Love Story is a Ghost Story is as illuminating, multifaceted, and serious an estimation of David Foster Wallace's life and work as we can hope to find.
-- Elissa Schappell -
I love really, really deep, dark-as-Russia storylines. I love supernatural aspects. I grew up with ghost stories.
-- Emma Bell -
But I think we are seeing a resurgence of the graphic ghost story like The Others, Devil's Backbone and The Sixth Sense. It is a return to more gothic atmospheric ghost storytelling.
-- Guillermo del Toro -
Ghost stories always creep me out and weird me out. Those are always interesting to watch.
-- Jessica Szohr -
I do not believe in ghosts. I believe in ghost stories.
-- John Robert Colombo -
Most traditional ghost stories feature rather hapless protagonists, who have nasty things happen to them.
-- Jonathan Stroud -
I was dreading all of the ghost stories of working on American television, not in the least, the length. In Britain, a series is six episodes of an hour drama, maybe sometimes eight, but never twenty-two, so I was petrified of that.
-- Lennie James -
I loved ghost stories, creaky staircases, stormy nights. If it guaranteed nightmares I read it by flashlight, after midnight.
-- Lisa Gardner -
A ghost story of which the scene is laid in the twelfth or thirteenth century may succeed in being romantic or poetical: it will never put the reader into the position of saying to himself: "If I'm not careful, something of this kind may happen to me!
-- M. R. James -
Are you going to tell me what that was about?†Adam asked as we went back upstairs. “Sometime,†I told him. “When we're telling ghost stories around a campfire, and I want to scare you.
-- Patricia Briggs -
I don't mind UFO's and ghost stories, it's just that I tend to give value to the storyteller rather than to the story itself.
-- Robert Stack -
There are some ghost stories in Japan where - when you are sitting in the bathroom in the traditional style of the Japanese toilet - a hand is actually starting to grab you from beneath. It's a very scary story.
-- Shigeru Miyamoto -
I think that the joke and the ghost story both have a similar set up in that you kind of set something up and pay it off with a laugh or a scare.
-- Simon Pegg -
we need ghost stories because we, in fact, are the ghosts.
-- Stephen King -
Ghost stories ... tell us about things that lie hidden within all of us, and which lurk outside all around us.
-- Susan Hill -
Ghost stories really scare me. I have such a big imagination that after I watch a horror movie like 'The Grudge', I look in the corners of my room for the next two days.
-- Vanessa Hudgens -
I know what I miss as a cinemagoer is that balance of films that actually scare me, they're so few and far between. I loved ghost stories, I love horror stories, I love all of that stuff, but I really yearn for something to actually frighten me.
-- Jane Goldman -
Everyone has a ghost story, or at least thats how it has always seemed to me.
-- John Searles -
I love ghost stories, I love to read them, and I love the idea of being haunted.
-- Micah Perks -
I don't feel like writing any more ghost stories.
-- Mary Downing Hahn -
There are certain types of genres that are impossible in China. Ghost stories, something too graphic, too violent, and of course if it's too political. Other than that, it will be fine.
-- Wong Kar-wai
