Andrew Coyle Bradley Quotes

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.

Mysticism and the supernatural are embedded in the show - it's called 'Da Vinci's Demons' for a reason, and it's not just metaphorical.

I think I'm always going to be a paranormal girl at heart. I'm always going to be intrigued by it.

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

Superstition? Who can define the boundary line between the superstition of yesterday and the scientific fact of tomorrow?

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

Miracles are doomed; they will drop out like fairies and witchcraft, from among the matter which serious people believe.

The 18th century, which is usually held to be the most "materialistic" of epochs, was, in fact, a most "spiritualistic" one; in which ghosts, demons, quacks, philosophers' stones, enchanters' wands, mysteries and mummeries, were as fashionable—as they will probably be again some day.

The Reign of the Witches

For my part, I have ever believed, and do so now, that there are witches.

The occult - what do you mean, Jesus? That's occult to me. It's so far-fetched, it's ridiculous.

What if 16th century people were right, and the supernatural and natural coexisted? How would that play out?

This makes me sound like some new age, crystal-worshipping weirdo, but the woods behind my house really felt haunted by the past when I was a kid.

I'm going to keep on dealing with the supernatural in a lot of ways.

I prefer to write about what we refer to as 'the supernatural' versus everyday life. Humans, by themselves, bore me.

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.

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.

I really don't believe in magic.

Witchery is merely a word for what we are all capable of.

I don't believe in voodoo.

I love the paranormal, because there, every genre I write can become one beacon for my imagination.

What I've absorbed of the gothic or paranormal has come mainly from films.

Superstitions and belief in magic are perennial in just the same way as religion, and something near to being universal among mankind; and why this is so may be interesting, but in most cases the beliefs themselves are devoid of interesting content, at least to me.

I think people are just intrigued with the supernatural. I mean, I know that I am. It's something that I find very interesting.