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


Gillian Flynn

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DIERKS BENTLEY I have always been a pretty big fan of ghost stories.
OTTO PENZLER So many of the fantasy stories I encountered growing up were set in worlds that were largely modelle...
CHRIS ROBERSON I've always been a huge fantasy fan. I was always interested in fairy tales and anything with ma...
SARAH J. MAAS It was one of the few stories we told the same way.
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GILLIAN FLYNN The films that I've done before were original stories most of the time, I did two adaptations be...
WALTER SALLES The number of people seeking us out is way up, and yes, we've had more [ghost ] stories submitted.
JACK MOYER I'm pretty sure my house in Florida is haunted! He's a nice ghost though.
ARIANA GRANDE There is not a great Spanish tradition of ghost stories. But in the period of Franco, you'd find...
JUAN ANTONIO BAYONA If you go all the way back, I've always written science-fiction, I've always written fantasy...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN We literally had thousands of people coming in and out of our house. Everyone remembers her gracious...
KATHY HENDRICKS It is my belief that all gods are stories, or at least the ideas behind stories, but stories or idea...
ALAN MOORE Stories are like children. They grow in their own way.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE I loved ghost stories, creaky staircases, stormy nights. If it guaranteed nightmares I read it by fl...
LISA GARDNER When I was growing up, I loved stories in which a girl sets out on a quest to rescue the prince inst...
NANCY WILLARD In my day, there were things that were done, and things that were not done, and there was even a way...
PETER USTINOV A lot of my stories are inspired by Japanese folklore or literature or movies: I've done stories...
STAN SAKAI I can tell you stories, horrendous stories especially with sex offenders and the things they have do...
LEE BRAND I love stories about people that, whatever situation they're in, you can relate to them in a way...
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FRANKIE HARRIS Ghost stories always creep me out and weird me out. Those are always interesting to watch.
JESSICA SZOHR I'm inspired by almost everything I come across in life, and one way or another they find themse...
JAMES DASHNER The stories of wine lords who trade wine on intimidation or food critics who trade free meals for re...
JOE BASTIANICH The chandelier was wearing on its rubber support and the crack at the side of the ceiling hold was g...
KATE CHISMAN What I'm always trying to do with every book is to recreate the effect of the stories we heard a...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK I loved fairy tales when I was a kid. Grimm. The grimmer the better. I loved gruesome gothic tales a...
AMY TAN Look it, I've done it their way this far and now it's my turn. I'm my own handler. Any questions? As...
DAN QUAYLE I loved ghost stories. I love horror stories. I love all of that stuff, but I really yearn for somet...
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FRANCINE BUSBY I really love sort of classical cinema where people were telling stories with very little dialogue, ...
ALEX WINTER I loved fantasy, but I particularly loved the stories in which somebody got out of where they were a...
LEV GROSSMAN Start seeing a way for yourself. Stop seeing a way for others.
APURVA GAGLANI I'm always captivated by stories of women who find a way to be daring - misbehaving women.
SUE MONK KIDD Well, ya best start believing in ghost stories Miss Turner, you're in one!
GEOFFREY RUSH I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than...
NEIL GAIMAN It's the No.1 issue with people I talk to, whether Republican, Democrat or independent. They wan...
FRANCINE BUSBY Ghost stories and Sherlock Holmes mysteries were great. And I had a major soft spot for those 'C...
RANSOM RIGGS Throughout my teenage years, I read 'A Christmas Carol' by Charles Dickens every December. I...
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KATEE SACKHOFF He had built his own future brick by brick around himself but there were no doors or windows, at lea...
DAN CHAON She always did like tales of adventure-stories full of brightness and darkness. She could tell you t...
CORNELIA FUNKE It had begun to be present to him after the first fortnight, it had broken out with the oddest abrup...
HENRY JAMES I always loved the verve and vivacity of pulp and I kind of merged it with my own interest in family...
DANIEL WOODRELL In the old days, spies had done they'd done because they loved their country, because they believed ...
ANTHONY HOROWITZ I'm the boogeyman used to scare South Central kids when they tell ghost stories.
JERRY HELLER If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong.
CHARLES KETTERING I always loved fish for the colors and birds for the plumage. In the same way, I loved those women o...
CHRISTIAN LOUBOUTIN Parents and teachers have brought children back. We've been told this is the most ideal Halloween ev...
DONNA WING I put on a skirt and blouse for the meeting, feeling dwarfy, my grown up, big-girl clothes never qui...
GILLIAN FLYNN I wanted to slice barren into my skin. That’s how I’d stay, my insides unused. Empty and pristin...
GILLIAN FLYNN A molta gente manca questo dono, la capacità di capire quando deve levarsi dai coglioni. Alla gente...
GILLIAN FLYNN It had turned me into a knee-jerk suckup to authority. Mom, Dad, teachers: Whatever makes your job e...
GILLIAN FLYNN You almost feel dirty for reading [Gillian Flynn's] books, like you've been forced to join your cons...
TARRYN FISHER Mindfulness helps us get better at seeing the difference between what’s happening and the stories ...
SHARON SALZBERG The main reason I became a teacher is that I like being the first one to introduce kids to words and...
PHILLIP DONE If they squish what we want to build down to four stories, it's a signal that there's no willingness...
ANTHONY CARUSO I think most people aren't really privy to how stories are developed and what stories are - make...
SEAN SPICER Go didn't like grilled cheese; she was scooping peanut butter out of the jar onto saltines. When a c...
GILLIAN FLYNN I felt a pop and being a player, you always hear the stories and the people that (suffer an ACL inju...
KANE MOIX Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat differ...
ALICE MUNRO I wrote ghost stories because I'd always enjoyed reading them, and they seemed to be fizzling ou...
SUSAN HILL The purpose of the 'Way Forward Group' is simply to do, in a formal way, what the royal family in Br...
RODNEY BARKER My stories are not Christianized at all. I don't even have any Christians in my stories. What th...
TED DEKKER I wish I’d paid better attention. I didn’t yet think of time as finite. I didn’t fully appreci...
JESSICA MARIA TUCCELLI I know little stories that happen to people around me, and I can repeat that in a way that has some ...
HARRY DEAN STANTON Human beings across every culture I know about require such stories, stories with cool winds and woo...
PETER STRAUB These provide a different way of thinking. They have to be done quickly and in the moment. I like do...
HARRIET WISEMAN David's mother would often tell him stories were alive. They weren't alive in the way people were al...
JOHN CONNOLLY As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.
TALULAH RILEY The House Republicans, I believe, have taken a step back and said, OK, the way we've always done it ...
GEOFFREY SEGAL I've always loved the way movie stars in the Forties looked when they were off set. Shot poolsid...
FRANCOIS NARS I keep all my clothes on in House on Haunted Hill, Mary Jane's Last Dance, and The Way of the Gu...
TAYE DIGGS Though they don't always have to be set in fog, weather is incredibly important in ghost stories...
SUSAN HILL The stories in books hate the stories in newspapers, David's mother would say. Newspaper stories wer...
JOHN CONNOLLY I used to tell strange, wild, improbable tales akin to ghost stories, and discovered a taste for spi...
ALGERNON BLACKWOOD I am especially fascinated with mermaids, and they are always coming out in pirate stories.
YASMINE AL MASRI Mr. Meant-to has a friend, his name is Didn't-Do. Have you met them? They live together in a house c...
MARVA COLLINS One of the things I've done on my shows is tell stories and do interviews.
EDDIE TRUNK the deceased don’t want you to forget about them. They just want you to move past it; not to dwell...
JUSTIN PYFROM 'Castle' is a guy living in a fantasy world. He's in his imagination, writing these stor...
NATHAN FILLION I had always loved writing, but I had never really done any poetry. It seemed at that time to be the...
MANDY SMOKER Imagine life as a game, a game that is filled with obstacles and hazards to overcome but sometimes y...
GARY F EVANS... One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE I have always been infatuated with country music. Country music tells stories, and I've always l...
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ALBERT EINSTEIN I realized all the stories I was interested in were Southern stories, ... They are who I am and I ne...
CYNTHIA HILL This earth that we live on is full of stories in the same way that, for a fish, the ocean is full of...
BEN OKRI Myths are stories that express meaning, morality or motivation. Whether they are true or not is irre...
MICHAEL SHERMER These were our bedtime stories. Tales that haunted our parents and made them laugh at the same time....
EDWIDGE DANTICAT I remember all the way back in high school thinking about writing books. And, in fact, I've writ...
PATRICK CARMAN So, I guess motherhood and the threat of not being able to pay my rent inspired me to be a novelist....
GAYLE FORMAN In a way, I think it's the most important thing I've done.
BRIAN CROZIER I was always the classroom clown, and the teachers allowed me a certain latitude. The assemblies wer...
DAVID HAREWOOD Halloween isn't the only time for ghosts and ghost stories. In Victorian Britain, spooky winter&...
MICHAEL DIRDA Stories have a special way of putting us inside the people, inside the boots of the soldiers. You...
TIM O'BRIEN I used to write stories. Handwriting stories in school were a big deal for me. That's kind of wh...
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GILLIAN FLYNN I'm definitely much more of a beach bunny. I prefer the sun over the snow.
GILLIAN ZINSER I am trying to break free from my stripes addiction, but the pull is strong! I need help buying non-...
GILLIAN JACOBS A lot of my friends are guys, so I'm used to bro antics.
GILLIAN JACOBS Just as sure as each knot on a fisherman's net does not physically connect so far as each knot forms...
GILLIAN DUCE Love reached across space and time to find you. You are the smile of a million stars.
GILLIAN DUCE I know other actors who are relieved when their shows get cancelled, and I've never felt that wa...
GILLIAN JACOBS I've always thought - and I don't even know if I'd be right for the part - that Jean Seb...
GILLIAN JACOBS Well, it seems to me that the best relationships - the ones that last - are frequently the ones that...
GILLIAN ANDERSON Feeling the anguish does not make you weak, but conceding and hiding from it makes a coward.
GILLIAN DUCE I believe people are in our lives for a reason. We're here to learn from each other.
GILLIAN ANDERSON We are all dying. Every single day that we are alive!
GILLIAN ANDERSON Let's stop being so damn judgemental & crucifying everyone who doesn't fit into our boxed-in percept...
GILLIAN ANDERSON I wouldn't say I'm normal. But I'm relatively stable. When I think of normal, I think of mediocrity,...
GILLIAN ANDERSON There is a difference between being listened to and being heard.
GILLIAN ANDERSON People generally treat me like I'm very intelligent and really, I'm much less intelligent than she i...
GILLIAN ANDERSON I used to take myself very seriously, now it's all just funny. You gotta laugh at yourself. You know...
GILLIAN ANDERSON We can only make ourselves the victim.
GILLIAN ANDERSON It is not a matter of being fearless. The fear is sometimes constant, but it's about moving forward ...
GILLIAN ANDERSON Success has nothing to do with happiness.
GILLIAN ANDERSON Be courageous, believe in yourself, and be the best woman you can be. I'm with you all the way.
GILLIAN ANDERSON Well, it seems to me that the best relationships - the ones that last - are frequently the ones that...
GILLIAN ANDERSON I had my life Monday through Friday in school, and then I had my 'real life,' which was my a...
GILLIAN JACOBS I think we're tremendously different than the series, if they were to tune in to the series afte...
GILLIAN ANDERSON I hope everyone that is reading this is having a really good day. And if you are not, just know that...
GILLIAN ANDERSON I love discovering new young brands and watching these fashion lines take off, like Peter Pilotto, C...
GILLIAN JACOBS I'm not conservative, but I am kind of clean living in my own life.
GILLIAN JACOBS My grandfather can barely even hear, and Chevy Chase makes a face, and he laughs.
GILLIAN JACOBS I love the way little kids dress themselves! They're completely carefree about how others percei...
GILLIAN ZINSER Craig Robinson is basically the mayor of wherever he goes.
GILLIAN JACOBS When I was 18 years old, I had never before seen Australian film on the big screen.
GILLIAN ARMSTRONG Be of service. Whether you make yourself available to a friend or co-worker, or you make time every ...
GILLIAN ANDERSON In the Arab and Israeli worlds' eyes, Jared Kushner is a perfectly plausible American arbiter of...
GILLIAN TURNER