I'm really quite hard to scare so it was about mining times when I have jumped, and what creeps me out.

For I see that then I was still all in a state of innocence, but that innocence, once lost, is lost forever.

I have sat here at my desk, day after day, night after night, a blank sheet of paper before me, unable to lift my pen, trembling and weeping too.

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

I had not yet learned that we make our own destiny, it springs from within us. It is not the outward events but what we allow ourselves to make of them that count.

Some people make tunes, but it is lines that run like moving messages through my head. Whatever else I am saying and doing often has no bearing on this inner, verbal life.

The key word for my book The Woman in Black is unsettling... because you're not terrified all of the time or even frightened, but you're unsettled and once you're unsettled, then the door's open.

I like going into a school matinee. I like to be behind the stage because there's a spy-hole and what you see is the best moment in all theatre.

A book which is left on a shelf is a dead thing but it is also a chrysalis, an inanimate object packed with the potential to burst into new life.

I collect Victorian automata and coming across them in the dark does give you a little shudder.

I had changed, and gone on changing, but I did not fully remember how it had begun, or understand why.

Some looks are heavier than the thickest books because they carry the saddest stories of life!

Gratitude isn’t innate. It’s a habit that has to be learned through practice.

Facts are the barren branches on which we hang the dear, obscuring foliage of our dreams.

The journey into God’s heart will lead you into such depths of love as you have never dreamt possible

One of the best ways to attract capital is to outperform the competition.

We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind.

When I die, I hope they don't cremate me 'cuz I'll burn forever.

In a universe of love there can be no heaven which tolerates a chamber of horrors.

If you're gonna be free, you gotta stop caring what everyone thinks.

Through obedience learn to command.