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This collection holds 72 ghost stories quotes, drawn from writers, leaders, artists and thinkers across the QuoteForever archive. The most quoted voices here are Rebecca Hall, David Foster Wallace and Mary Downing Hahn.

They are ordered so that each author has a say before anyone repeats, which means the first page gives you the range of the topic rather than one writer's back catalogue.

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As a child I loved ghost stories.

Every love story is a ghost story.

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

I want to believe in ghosts. I love ghost stories.

I have always been a pretty big fan of ghost stories.

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

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

The savagery and power of Edith Wharton's ghost stories surprised me.

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

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

I'm the boogeyman used to scare South Central kids when they tell ghost stories.

I loved all ghost stories. So I guess it was only a matter of time before I wrote one.

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

I love short stories, but I've never had the impulse to write one. Same for ghost stories.

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

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

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.

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

I used to tell strange, wild, improbable tales akin to ghost stories, and discovered a taste for spinning yarns.

I love really, really deep, dark-as-Russia storylines. I love supernatural aspects. I grew up with 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 might enjoy writing some ghost stories set in Japan because their whole idea about the spirit world is so interesting.

I always loved ghost stories and haunted house stories, whether they were done in a fantasy way or done in a realistic way.

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

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.

Ghost stories and Sherlock Holmes mysteries were great. And I had a major soft spot for those 'Choose Your Own Adventure' books.

I'm a complete skeptic when it comes to the supernatural and all that. I've never had any ghost stories or any kind of weird experiences.

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?

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 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 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'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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

There are certain types of genres that are impossible in China. Ghost stories, something too graphic, too violent, and of course if it's too political. Other than that, it will be fine.

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.

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.

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.

Throughout my teenage years, I read 'A Christmas Carol' by Charles Dickens every December. It was a story that never failed to excite me, for as well as being a Dickens enthusiast, I have always loved ghost stories.

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.

There is not a great Spanish tradition of ghost stories. But in the period of Franco, you'd find these ghost stories: sort of hidden political movies that were supposed to be about ghosts but were about something else.

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 book was called 'Ghost Stories Of An Antiquary.'

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.

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.

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!

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.

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