Book Quote by George Saunders

[Lincoln in the Bardo] is not a long book. And that meant I could obsess over it and live in it both backwards and…

— George Saunders

“Two ingredients most valuable in the concocting of a ghost story are the atmosphere and the nicely managed crescendo …Let us, then, be introduced…

— M. R. James

Lincoln was not a good impromptu speaker; he was at his best when he could read from a carefully prepared manuscript, though maybe a…

— David Herbert Donald

And, finally, Lincoln was not a good impromptu speaker; he was at his best when he could read from a carefully prepared manuscript. Though…

— David Herbert Donald

“Skepticism is key to a good ghost story”

— Jeff Provine

The beginning [of Lincoln in the Bardo] is strange, and I did a lot of work calibrating that so that a reader with a…

— George Saunders

“How is it possible to defeat not the authors but the functions of the author, the idea that behind each book there is someone…

— Italo Calvino

“But in a few years more perhaps there may be; for, deep within us as the ghost instinct lurks, I seem to see it…

— Edith Wharton

“I never was much for ghost stories. Never have been too easily spooked. I believed that a body that abides in the Spirit didn't…

— Allie Ray

For 'Ghostbusters,' the thing that makes it such an amazing franchise and an amazing idea is that it is adds the element of physics…

— Kate McKinnon

“How do you feel when you read stuff written by dead authors? A visit by a ghost?”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

“Ghosts are just pieces of memory. They haunt us because we don't want to forget. We are the ghost makers. We take fragments of…

— Carrie Arcos