Jenna Wortham Quotes

As a child I loved ghost stories.

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

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 always wanted to live in a haunted house.

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.

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.

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 like haunted things.

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

So many horrid Ghosts.

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 have some good stories yet to tell.

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

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

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

I look for ghosts; but none will force Their way to me. 'Tis falsely said That there was ever intercourse Between the living and the dead.

All the world loves a ghost. The evidence of that simple statement can be found by looking in nearly every direction.

Magic is at the core of myths.

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

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.

I haven't done lots of horror.

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.

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

I love horror, I love scary movies, I love thrillers. If things creep you out and spook you? I love it.