Ghost stories Quote by Michael Dirda Download Open image “The savagery and power of Edith Wharton's ghost stories surprised me.” — Michael Dirda ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Edith Wharton Ghost stories Me Power Savagery
Edith Wharton was a natural story-teller. As plots do in real life, hers flow directly from character. Her prose is so effortlessly elegant that… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“I checked out the two Edith Wharton books I had just returned because I'd read them so long ago and they are more apropos… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
“My parents warned me about horror movies Blood and guts and Stephen King. They told me to stop reading such disturbing stories Stop playing… — Holly Riordan Copy Share Image
“No wonder that the ghost and goblin stories had a new zest. No wonder that the blood of the more timid grew chill and curdled, that their flesh crept, and their hearts beat irregularly, and the girls peeped fearfully over their shoulders, and huddled close together like frightened sheep, and half-fancied they beheld some impish and malignant face gibbering at… — John Berwick Harwood Copy Share
My English teachers gave me a copy of Atwood's 'The Handmaid's Tale' when I left high school, which has always been very special to… — Samantha Shannon Copy Share Image
I started realising that the themes running through all of my novels were really haunting and obsessing me about my own life. — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
Juanita Rose Violini's Almanac of the Infamous, the Incredible and the Ignored is delightfully odd, wonderfully weird, and anything but normal. Filled with historical… — Jeff Belanger Copy Share Image
Horror stories give us a way of exhausting our emotions around social issues, like a woman's right to an abortion, which I always thought… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I was thinking about the legacy of ghosts in fiction, and specifically the moral power of those Dickensian ghosts. Because a ghost can be… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I am very fond of Edith Wharton. She's quite high brow but also a great storyteller. My favorite is 'The House of Mirth.' I… — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
Hoping they'd been inspired by the examples of Anne Frank and other teens who had turned negative experiences into something positive by writing about… — Erin Gruwell Copy Share Image
Real stories - whether in pure fiction or historical - have a certain indefinable power; we are endlessly curious about the past and hungry… — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image
Nearly all the writing of our time is likely to disappear in a hundred years. Certainly most readers - and nearly all critics -… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
I sometimes lie awake at night and try to imagine what would be the best period in history to spend one's seventy-odd years. — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
To my mind, 'Dear Brutus' stands halfway between Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' and Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's 'Into the Woods'. Like them,… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
The goal of a just society should be to provide satisfying work with a living wage to all its citizens. — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
Most lyric poetry is about love, whether yearned after, fulfilled, or wistfully regretted; what isn't tends to consist of laments and cris du coeur… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
“Books, by their very nature and variety, help us grow in empathy for others, in tolerance and awareness. But they should increase our skepticism… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
My gift, if that's not too grandiose a term, is one for describing novels, biographies, and works of history in such a way that… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
Once we know the plot and its surprises, we can appreciate a book's artistry without the usual confusion and sap flow of emotion, content… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
My wife tells me I should check out 'Downton Abbey', but I gather that series might be almost too intense for my temperate nature. — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
A reviewer's lot is not always an easy one. I can remember flogging myself to finish Harold Brodkey's 'The Runaway Soul' despite the novel's… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
I once read that in vaudeville, it was often the straight guy who got paid more than the comic because that's the tougher job.… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
From the late 19th to the early 20th century, the December issue of almost any general-interest magazine regularly featured a holiday horror or two. — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
The ghost story movie that scared me the most was The Changeling with George C. Scott. I think that's sometimes overlooked, but it's a… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I love ghost stories, I love to read them, and I love the idea of being haunted. — Micah Perks Copy Share Image
I read a lot of ghost stories because I was writing a ghost story. I didn't think at all I was writing a horror… — Susan Hill Copy Share Image
How are we to account for the strange human craving for the pleasure of feeling afraid which is so much involved in our love… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“I'd grown up hearing stories about the special hazards that girls faced. I knew where the bodies were found: naked on beaches or cut… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
I'm the boogeyman used to scare South Central kids when they tell ghost stories. — Jerry Heller Copy Share Image
Most of the things that I remember from childhood wouldn't make a particularly good story: rescuing worms during rainstorms, our schnauzer attacking a wheel… — Kelly Link Copy Share Image
I love ghost stories. I remember when I was about 12, I read M. R. James' 'Ghost Stories Of An Antiquary' under the covers,… — Tom Goodman-Hill Copy Share Image
As a child, I was a brat, and my parents didn't know how to control me. So they told me ghost stories, which stayed… — Bipasha Basu Copy Share Image
Ghost stories ... tell us about things that lie hidden within all of us, and which lurk outside all around us. — Susan Hill Copy Share Image
How to make a scary movie human, take a movie like Sinister. How can I make that guy so real so that the scary… — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
What I'm always trying to do with every book is to recreate the effect of the stories we heard as children in front of… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
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