Ghost Stories Quotes

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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.

I loved ghost stories, creaky staircases, stormy nights. If it guaranteed nightmares I read it by flashlight, after midnight.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

As a child I loved ghost stories.

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

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.

I do not believe in ghosts. I believe in ghost stories.

Every love story is a ghost story.

One of the best possible perspectives from which to tell a story is that of a ghost, someone who is dead but can still witness.

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

You and me are going to have so much fun, Rose. Picking out curtains, doing each other's hair, telling ghost stories.

I remember telling ghost stories with my cousins when I was four, five, six-years-old. I've just always loved it. But I think you're drawn to things you're terrified of.

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

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?

These stories are ghosts, bringing people back from the dead. Just for a moment. For a visit. Every story is a ghost.

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

I'm a huge fan of ghost stories, that sort of slow build, the suspense and the questioning about whether you're imagining something or if it's real.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

I believe ghost story writing is a dying art.

There must be something ghostly in the air of Christmas — something about the close, muggy atmosphere that draws up the ghosts, like the dampness of the summer rains brings out the frogs and snails.

To tell a ghost story means being willing to be haunted.

Answers are almost always insufficient. They are almost always misleading.

Dangers were no more than odd imaginings, like ghost stories that children made up to frighten one another: things that couldn't possibly happen.

If he looks at me like that again Dottie will need a bucket and mop to get me back to my room.

If you do not want to be forgotten as soon as you are dead...be read, or try coming back and pull the feet of those who are still alive instead!

The moon shone upon his almost transparent hands, and Stephen saw that the nails were fearfully long and that the light shone through them.

Your tills are talking to me and want me to take them home. Does this often happen?

Your fortune teller cursed me. Foul spirits haunt every supermarket I go to. I can't show my face in Morrisons.

The narrator, I think, must succeed in frightening himself before he can think of frightening his reader…

Most human beings come into the world and leave it with nothing to show they ever lived.