Ghost Stories Quotes
Spooky reflections from writers and readers alike.
These ghost stories quotes cover everything from childhood scares to the craft of writing a proper haunting. For more atmospheric reading, browse our Alone quotes collection.
I love ghost stories but kind of left them alone after my teens and came back to it after playing Heathcliff in 'Wuthering Heights' on the radio.
I wrote ghost stories because I'd always enjoyed reading them, and they seemed to be fizzling out... I don't take them terribly seriously. It's like a cake, with ingredients.
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Many people told me such convincing ghost stories that I felt that there really were ghosts, though I hadn't seen any. And though I still haven't seen a ghost, I feel that they are all around us; we are just...
One of the very first ghost stories I read - and that was in a forest rest house, where it is a bit scarier - was by M.R. James. He is one of the pioneers of ghost stories. And the...
Alone Quotes
Today's ghost stories tend to be much more physically or psychologically violent. The Victorians were much more leisurely about what might or could happen, building suspense layer by layer rather than punching you in the face.
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...
I love ghost stories but I can't really watch them, especially not by myself because then I can't sleep.
Most traditional ghost stories feature rather hapless protagonists, who have nasty things happen to them.
I always loved ghost stories and haunted house stories, whether they were done in a fantasy way or done in a realistic way.
Always Quotes
Science fiction is no more written for scientists that ghost stories are written for ghosts.
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.
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