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As a child I loved ghost stories. -- Rebecca Hall
Ghost stories always creep me out and weird me out. Those are always interesting to watch. -- Jessica Szohr
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
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
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
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
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 then it will be great at some point. -- Chris Martin
I remember when I was about 12, I read M. R. James' 'Ghost Stories Of An Antiquary' under the covers, way too young to fully understand what was going on with those stories - completely terrified but absolutely loved them. -- Tom Goodman-Hill
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
The idea of Ghost Stories is how to turn something bad into something that gives you an uplift. -- Chris Martin
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
Every love story is a ghost story. -- David Foster Wallace
we need ghost stories because we, in fact, are the ghosts. -- Stephen King
Science fiction is no more written for scientists that ghost stories are written for ghosts. -- Brian Aldiss
Most traditional ghost stories feature rather hapless protagonists, who have nasty things happen to them. -- Jonathan Stroud
Science fiction is no more written for scientists than ghost stories are written for ghosts. -- Brian Aldiss
Everyone has a ghost story, or at least thats how it has always seemed to me. -- John Searles
I love really, really deep, dark-as-Russia storylines. I love supernatural aspects. I grew up with ghost stories. -- Emma Bell
I love ghost stories but I can't really watch them, especially not by myself because then I can't sleep. -- Laurie Holden
I loved all ghost stories. So I guess it was only a matter of time before I wrote one. -- Chris Bohjalian
I used to tell strange, wild, improbable tales akin to ghost stories, and discovered a taste for spinning yarns. -- Algernon Blackwood
I loved ghost stories, creaky staircases, stormy nights. If it guaranteed nightmares I read it by flashlight, after midnight. -- Lisa Gardner
I might enjoy writing some ghost stories set in Japan because their whole idea about the spirit world is so interesting. -- William T. Vollmann
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. -- Gillian Flynn
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
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. -- Tom Goodman-Hill
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
Though they don't always have to be set in fog, weather is incredibly important in ghost stories. As is suspense: you've got to turn the screw very, very slowly. -- Susan Hill
I wrote ghost stories because I'd always enjoyed reading them, and they seemed to be fizzling out... I don't take them terribly seriously. It's like a cake, with ingredients. -- Susan Hill
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
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. -- Wong Kar-wai
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
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
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
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
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. -- John Boyne
I have only read very classic traditional English ghost stories, other than Henry James, who wrote some magnificent short ones as well as the longer 'Turn of the Screw.' He, Dickens, and M.R. James are my influences. -- Susan Hill
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
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
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
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
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
Ghost stories are always listened to and well received in private, but pitilessly disavowed in public. For my own part, ignorant as I am of the way in which the human spirit enters the world and the way in which he goes out of it, I dare not deny the truth of many such narratives. -- Immanuel Kant
I love ghost stories, and I also have a great fondness and love for 'Quatermass,' which in many ways is the show that preceded 'Doctor Who.' 'Doctor Who' borrowed quite a bit from 'Quatermass' and probably wouldn't have existed in anything like the form we recognise today if 'Quatermass' hadn't come before it. -- Neil Cross
I read a lot of ghost stories because I was writing a ghost story. I didn't think at all I was writing a horror or a thriller or whatever because it is about a ghost, whereas a horror film can be about aliens or things that rise out of the marsh that have no human shape. -- Susan Hill
I don't feel like writing any more ghost stories. -- Mary Downing Hahn
I do not believe in ghosts. I believe in ghost stories. -- John Robert Colombo
I love ghost stories, I love to read them, and I love the idea of being haunted. -- Micah Perks
Ghost stories ... tell us about things that lie hidden within all of us, and which lurk outside all around us. -- Susan Hill
You and me are going to have so much fun, Rose. Picking out curtains, doing each other's hair, telling ghost stories. -- Richelle Mead
You and me are going to have so much fun, Rose. Picking out curtains, doing each other's hair, telling ghost stories.... -- Richelle Mead
These stories are ghosts, bringing people back from the dead. Just for a moment. For a visit. Every story is a ghost. -- Chuck Palahniuk
I have some shorter stories coming out in other books early next year. I might be pitching a re-vamp of Ghost Rider in the spring. We'll see. -- Patton Oswalt
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

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