Michelle Paver Quotes

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

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.

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

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

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

I like haunted things.

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

So many horrid Ghosts.

As a child I loved ghost stories.

I always wanted to live in a haunted house.

It would be difficult to write a convincing ghost story set on a sunny day in a big city.

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

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.

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

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

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

They say that shadows of deceased ghosts Do haunt the houses and the graves about, Of such whose life's lamp went untimely out, Delighting still in their forsaken hosts.

'Ravenswood' is horror. It's not slasher, but it's psychological and spiritual horror.

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 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.

Spirits want to be heard. That's why they're not at rest.

Rather than a horror film, a ghost story is different because a ghost is what you can't quite see.

Ghosts, we hope, may be always with us - that is, never too far out of the reach of fancy. On the whole, it would seem they adapt themselves well, perhaps better than we do, to changing world conditions - they enlarge their domain, shift their hold on our nerves, and, dispossessed of one habitat, set up house in another. The universal battiness of our century looks like providing them with a propitious climate.