Michelle Paver Quotes

I always wanted to live in a haunted house.

People keep asking if I believe in ghosts. If you're talking about poltergeists and weird, supernatural phenomena, not really.

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

As a child I loved ghost stories.

I like the influence of the macabre, but I don't believe in ghosts.

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

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 just don't want to believe in ghosts, ghouls and spirits.

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

Why a ghost story? Well, I love them. They're fun to read - and, yes, fun to write.

I try to stay far away from anything creepy and supernatural. I'd rather not think about it.

Even though I don't necessarily believe in everything that's supernatural, I like being scared and I like things that are suspenseful.

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.

I like haunted things.

I am not scared of ghosts. I don't believe in ghosts or in the supernatural.

The ghost story is a popular genre of mine and is particularly adaptable to the visual media.

So many horrid Ghosts.

Ghostly things don't really scare me, but they really intrigue me.

Horror, for me, has to involve some sort of fantasy. Horror is something that is in your dreams or your nightmares.

I realised that today we are very much interested in reading about subjects that would have also interested people in the 1500s: ghosts, demons and things that go bump in the night.

It's said that All Hallows' Eve is one of the nights when the veil between the worlds is thin - and whether you believe in such things or not, those roaming spirits probably believe in you, or at least acknowledge your existence, considering that it used to be their own. Even the air feels different on Halloween, autumn-crisp and bright.

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

I don't think I've ever been haunted by a ghost, but I always joke with my fiance about the house we're living in right now. It seems to have something in it.

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