Rebecca Hall Quotes

The first ghost story I ever heard was from my mother.

In a ghost story, usually you've got to hang on until daylight, and you'll be alright. But if daylight's four months away, then you have a problem.

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

All cultures have had a belief in ghosts and a fear of ghosts. People have always told stories, and everybody likes being frightened, especially when you feel safe. Personally, I find them scarier than vampires or zombies.

I love ghost stories. 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.

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

I always wanted to tell stories. From the time I had 20 cents or a quarter in my pocket, I could peddle my old Rambler 500 down to the corner store and buy comic books.

I love fantasy. I grew up reading fantasy.

I swear to God I was freaked out about the Aswang when I was a kid in the Philippines.

I always wanted to live in a haunted house.

I love stories. I loved stories when I was a kid. My mom read stories to me all the time.

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

I grew up with a lot of fairy tales. And they had an essence of darkness to them.

I have always been fascinated by the supernatural elements in stories, whether fairy tales, myths, film or literature.

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

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.

I like haunted things.

I love reading all the mythological stories. I was brought up on them.

When I was a kid, I really got into monsters.

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.

Magic is at the core of myths.

I like something where I can really use my imagination and be an active participant in the construction of the monster and usually that's in the world of the supernatural or the world of the fantastic, so that's why those kinds of stories about demons and the supernatural appeal to me or maybe I'm really interested in that subject.

A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

Our literary culture is marinated in deep traditions of the fantastic and the supernatural, and we export those rich qualities in films and books on a spectacular industrial scale.

As a child, I was fortunate enough to be close to family members who were - and still are - great storytellers. I was a gullible country boy from Rocky Mount, Virginia, and I believed every folktale they told me, no matter how fantastic.