Book Quote by Patton Oswalt

I loved all ghost stories. So I guess it was only a matter of time before I wrote one.

— Chris Bohjalian

There's a lot of people that need these stories, and they can't come to my book, so I'm going to be the bookmobile and…

— Sandra Cisneros

As soon as I finished the first book, I wrote a second, which I hope to sell this year, and I have just about…

— Richard Helms

Though my short stories are the more readable, my novels do have more to say; and they will, if anyone has the patience for…

— R. A. Lafferty

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

Strip away the morphing landscapes and rips in the space-time continuum, and my stories are about things that novels have always been about: love…

— Steve Erickson

There's that lovely thing for the first month or two of writing a new book: OK, I don't know what that character's going to…

— Terry Pratchett

All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them.

— Isabel Allende

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

— Chris Bohjalian

I love short stories, but I've never had the impulse to write one. Same for ghost stories.

— John Lanchester

“I have always loved books for their reassuring heft, for their promise of new words, for their air of mystery, for their characters who…

— Monica Wood

Nothing bores me more than books where you read two pages and you know exactly how it's going to come out. I want twists…

— George R. R. Martin