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Everyone has a ghost story, or at least that's how it has always seemed to me. -- John Searles
Why a ghost story? Well, I love them. They're fun to read - and, yes, fun to write. -- Chris Bohjalian
It would be difficult to write a convincing ghost story set on a sunny day in a big city. -- Susan Hill
I've wanted to write a ghost story for years, and my main aim was to write the most frightening ghost story that I could think of. -- Michelle Paver
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
Every love story is a ghost story. -- David Foster Wallace
To tell a ghost story means being willing to be haunted. -- Judith "Jack" Halberstam
Everyone has a ghost story, or at least thats how it has always seemed to me. -- John Searles
I think someone who writes a ghost story probably needs to believe it in some way. -- Micah Perks
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
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
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
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
If you were writing a short ghost story, I would say start very quietly and go, 'One, two, three jump.' Or start with a jump and make it jumpier. But with a long story, it must have rises and falls. -- Susan Hill
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
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
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
I think of setting as almost a character of its own, influencing the other characters in ways they're not even aware of. So much of the success of a good ghost story rides on creating a creepy atmosphere; details of the landscape itself can help create a sense of dread. -- Jennifer McMahon
I love to be scared. Not, 'Hey, I think I smell smoke...' scared, but creepy, paranoid, what's-that-out-there-in-the-dark, ghost story scared. It's no surprise that I was the girl who got invited to the slumber parties because I could be counted on to tell a tale to scare the bejesus out of you. -- Libba Bray
When you read a supernatural suspense story or a ghost story, or a horror story, the evil at play is something that you can dismiss. And I wonder if, in this time, if people really want to be sitting on the subway reading a book about someone releasing a dirty bomb on the subway. -- Michael Koryta
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
As a child I loved ghost stories. -- Rebecca Hall
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
Ghost stories always creep me out and weird me out. Those are always interesting to watch. -- Jessica Szohr
I love really, really deep, dark-as-Russia storylines. I love supernatural aspects. I grew up with ghost stories. -- Emma Bell
I loved ghost stories, creaky staircases, stormy nights. If it guaranteed nightmares I read it by flashlight, after midnight. -- Lisa Gardner
I loved all ghost stories. So I guess it was only a matter of time before I wrote one. -- Chris Bohjalian
I love ghost stories but I can't really watch them, especially not by myself because then I can't sleep. -- Laurie Holden
I used to tell strange, wild, improbable tales akin to ghost stories, and discovered a taste for spinning yarns. -- Algernon Blackwood
I think I do believe in the afterlife; I have heard stories from people who I can completely trust that have seen ghosts. -- Saoirse Ronan
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
Part of the story of 'Ghosts of Ascalon' is how they got to that tentative truce where you can find humans and charr working together. -- Jeff Grubb
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
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
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
These stories are ghosts, bringing people back from the dead. Just for a moment. For a visit. Every story is a ghost. -- Chuck Palahniuk
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. -- Javier MarÃas
Long story short, ghosts just coming out of the closet sucked at communication. Probably as bad as a beginner ghost whisperer sucked at getting them to communicate. -- C.C. Hunter

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