Ghost Stories Quotes

• Ghost stories ... tell us about things that lie hidden within all of us, and which lurk outside all around us.

  Susan Hill

  Lying, Stories, Ghost

  Susan Hill (1983). “Ghost stories”

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• we need ghost stories because we, in fact, are the ghosts.

  Stephen King

  Needs, Facts, Stories

  Stephen King (2011). “Danse Macabre”, p.272, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Giving, Mind, Ufo

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• 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

  Two, Imagination, Scare

  FaceBook post by Vanessa Hudgens from Apr 19, 2012

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• Science fiction is no more written for scientists than ghost stories are written for ghosts.

  Brian Aldiss

  Science, Fiction, Scientist

  1961 Penguin Science Fiction, introduction.

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• How are we to account for the strange human craving for the pleasure of feeling afraid which is so much involved in our love of ghost stories?

  Virginia Woolf

  Feelings, Our Love, Strange

  Virginia Woolf (1967). “Collected essays”

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• As a child I loved ghost stories.

  Rebecca Hall

  Children, Stories, Ghost

  "Rebecca Hall Is Transcontinental". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 15, 2012.

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• There is probably a smell of roasted chestnuts and other good comfortable things all the time, for we are telling Winter Stories - Ghost Stories, or more shame for us - round the Christmas fire; and we have never stirred, except to draw a little nearer to it.

  Charles Dickens

  Winter, Smell, Fire

  Charles Dickens (1868). “Christmas Stories from "Household Words" and "All the Year Round"”, p.11

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• Every love story is a ghost story.

  David Foster Wallace

  Love Story, Jest, Stories

  David Foster Wallace (2013). “Texter”, p.11, Natur & Kultur

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• 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

  Thinking, Devil, Return

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• 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

  Thinking, Laughing, Scare

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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 it will be great at some point.

  Chris Martin

  Mean, Painful, Like You

  "Chris Martin opens up on split with Gwyneth Paltrow: I don't want to be scared of love" by Nicola Methven, www.mirror.co.uk. April 27, 2014.

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• I love ghost stories, I love to read them, and I love the idea of being haunted.

  Micah Perks

  Ideas, Love To Read, Stories

  "Nice girls are not supposed to be hungry". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 28, 2016.

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• I don't feel like writing any more ghost stories.

  Mary Downing Hahn

  Writing, Feels, Stories

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• 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

  Book, Horror Stories, Going Away

  "Bentley Little: The Elusive Dark Scribe Speaks". Interview with Vince A. Liaguno, www.darkscribemagazine.com. September 13, 2007.

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• 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

  May, Succeed, Kind

  M. R. James (1987). “Casting the Runes and Other Ghost Stories”, p.647, Oxford Paperbacks

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• Most of the things that I remember from childhood wouldn't make a particularly good story: rescuing worms during rainstorms, our schnauzer attacking a wheel of cheese when someone dropped it during dinner, my parents tricking us into riding Space Mountain at Disney World (we thought it was an educational people-mover kind of ride), playing Star Wars (I got to marry Harrison Ford and my sister married Luke Skywalker) in first and second grade. On the other hand, we always had lots of interesting babysitters--seminary students and friends of my parents--who told really good ghost stories.

  Kelly Link

  Stars, War, Educational

  Interview with Lynne Jamneck, strangehorizons.com. February 28, 2005.

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• I have to say my favorite stories are ghost stories. I don't like to see these made-up monster films or scary films with ghosts. It doesn't do anything to me. But a real ghost story that someone tells me, that I like.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Real, Scary, Monsters

  "Talking in Our Pajamas". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. Summer, 2008.

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• 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

  Men, Compassion, Max

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• I enjoyed [Celebrity Ghost Stories]. I never thought in a million years that I would tell people that I saw a ghost. And I've seen a lot of ghosts.

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Years, People, Saws

  "Sugar Ray Leonard - "The Big Fight" Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, aalbc.com.

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• How to make a scary movie human, take a movie like Sinister. How can I make that guy so real so that the scary elements of it are more scary and it functions as a genre movie - as the way it's supposed to, you want to hear a ghost story at midnight, that's a good one - but how do you fill it up with humanity inside, in staying true to the genre? You know? Does that make sense?

  Ethan Hawke

  Real, Guy, Scary

  Source: www.ign.com

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• The ghost story movie that scared me the most was The Changeling with George C. Scott. I think that's sometimes overlooked, but it's a wonderful piece of work.

  Stephen King

  Thinking, Pieces, Scared

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• Ghost stories always creep me out and weird me out. Those are always interesting to watch.

  Jessica Szohr

  Interesting, Watches, Creeps

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I love really, really deep, dark-as-Russia storylines. I love supernatural aspects. I grew up with ghost stories.

  Emma Bell

  Dark, Russia, Really Deep

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• I can't wait until this show gets on the road," he said. "You and me are going to have so much fun, Rose. Picking out curtains, doing each other's hair, telling ghost stories..." The reference to "ghost stories" hit a little closer to home than I was comfortable with. Not that choosing curtains or brushing Christian's hair was much more appealing.

  Richelle Mead

  Christian, Fun, Home

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