Gillian Flynn Quotes

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.

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

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.

As a child I loved ghost stories.

I always wanted to live in a haunted house.

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

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

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

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.

I like haunted things.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

I love a ghost story. I think they affect me more than other people that are much more skeptical than I am. I think that it's good that I do buy into them to some degree.

Ghosts exist.

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

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.

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

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