Ghost Stories Quotes - Page 2

• This is a story about a family and, as there is a ghost involved, you might cal it a ghost story. But every family is a ghost story. The dead sit at out tables long after they have gone.

  Mitch Albom

  Long, Gone, Tables

  "For One More Day". Book by Mitch Albom, September 26, 2006.

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• Before Luce could reply, a skinny, dark haired girl appeared in from of her, wagging her long fingers in Luce's face. "Ooooooh," the girl taunted in a ghost-story-telling voice, dancing around Luce in a circle. "The reds are watching youuuu." "Get out of here, Arriane, before I have you lobotimized," the attendant said, though it was clear from her first brief but genuine smile that she had some coarse affection for that crazy girl. It was also clear that Arriane did not reciprocate the love. She mimed a jerking-off motion at the attendant, then stared at Luce, daring her to be offended.

  Lauren Kate

  Girl, Crazy, Dark

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• 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

  Children, Book, Always Trying

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• The idea of Ghost Stories is how to turn something bad into something that gives you an uplift.

  Chris Martin

  Uplifting, Ideas, Giving

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• I was asked in an interview once: You're writing another book with a female lead? Aren't you afraid you're going to be pigeonholed? And I thought, I write a team superhero book, an uplifting solo hero book, I write a horror-western, and I write a ghost story. What am I gonna be pigeonholed as? Has a man in the history of men ever been asked if he was going to be pigeonholed because he wrote two consecutive books with male leads?

  Kelly Sue DeConnick

  Uplifting, Team, Hero

  "'So My Daughter Won't Have To': Why Kelly Sue DeConnick Fights to Make Women Welcome in Comics". Interview with Christopher Zumski Finke, www.yesmagazine.org. January 29, 2014.

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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

  Reading, Stuff, Curious

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• 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

  Japan, Hands, Scary Stories

  "Shigeru Miyamoto talks 'Legend of Zelda',' 'Mariokart'". Interview with Darren Franich, ew.com. February 10, 2012.

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• 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

  Drama, Two, Eight

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

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• The fundamental difference between the mystery story and the ghost story is the fact that a mystery demands a solution for its effectiveness; a ghost story is necessarily unsolvable; the reader must be willing to accept the fact that nothing is proved.

  Bennett Cerf

  Differences, Effectiveness, Fundamentals

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• Everyone has a ghost story, or at least thats how it has always seemed to me.

  John Searles

  Stories, Ghost

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• I wanted to write a horror story. But in some ways, I have always thought of myself as a kind of ghost-story/horror writer, though most of the time the supernatural never actually appears on stage.

  Dan Chaon

  Writing, Horror Stories, Way

  Interview with Tom Barbash, www.believermag.com.

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• Ghosts are a metaphor that can be interpreted so many different ways. There's no ending to what you can do. You can make it a fun ghost story. You can make it a deeply disturbing, psychological ghost story.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Fun, Way, Different

  Source: collider.com

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• 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

  Horror Stories, Missing, Balance

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• I think someone who writes a ghost story probably needs to believe it in some way.

  Micah Perks

  Believe, Writing, Thinking

  "'Nice girls are not supposed to be hungry'". Interview with Zoë Ruiz, logger.believermag.com. September 28, 2016.

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• I was already doing a lot of splendid research reading all the books about ghosts I could get hold of, and particularly true ghost stories - so much so that it became necessary for me to read a chapter of _Little Women_ every night before I turned out the light - and at the same time I was collecting pictures of houses, particularly odd houses, to see what I could find to make into a suitable haunted house.

  Shirley Jackson

  Book, Reading, Night

  Shirley Jackson (2013). “Come Along with Me: Classic Short Stories and an Unfinished Novel”, p.107, Penguin

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• Most traditional ghost stories feature rather hapless protagonists, who have nasty things happen to them.

  Jonathan Stroud

  Nasty, Protagonists, Happens

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• I was horrified of the dark. I realized that the only way I could get over that fear was by scaring other people, so I became obsessed with ghost stories, drawing monsters, watching monster movies, sneaking into horror movies, and it's just been the love of my life forever.

  Matthew Gray Gubler

  Dark, Drawing, People

  "Fantasia 2014: A Gothic Interview With Matthew Gray Gubler". Interview with Shawn Loeffler, www.yellmagazine.com. August 6, 2014.

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• As a child, I was a brat, and my parents didn't know how to control me. So they told me ghost stories, which stayed with me. I am still petrified of darkness and being alone.

  Bipasha Basu

  Children, Parent, Darkness

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• I don't do camps. Camps are for kids. I don't sleep in tents or roast marshmallows. I certainly don't tell ghost stories or own a sleeping bag. But I do work hard every single day.

  Chael Sonnen

  Hard Work, Sleep, Kids

  Source: www.nwfightscene.com

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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