“Some are haunted by ghosts. I am haunted by stories.”

The Best of Gene Wolfe (2009), afterword to "Kevin Malone", p. 355
Nonfiction

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "Some are haunted by ghosts. I am haunted by stories." by Gene Wolfe?

Gene Wolfe photo

Gene Wolfe102

American science fiction and fantasy writer 1931–2019

Related quotes

“What to say? That the end of love is a haunting. A haunting of dreams. A haunting of silence. Haunted by ghosts it is easy to become a ghost. Life ebbs. The pulse is too faint. Nothing stirs you. Some people approve of this and call it healing. It is not healing. A dead body feels no pain.”

Jeanette Winterson (1959) English writer

The Powerbook (2000)

“I feel as if I am an ad
for the sale of a haunted house:

18 rooms
$37,000
I’m yours
ghosts and all.”

Richard Brautigan (1935–1984) American novelist, poet, and short story writer

“That's why I call this place the Haunted Bookshop. Haunted by the ghosts of the books I haven't read. Poor uneasy spirits, they walk and walk around me. There's only one way to lay the ghost of a book, and that is to read it.”

Christopher Morley book The Haunted Bookshop

Source: The Haunted Bookshop

“A house with old furniture has no need of ghosts to be haunted.”

Hope Mirrlees book Lud-in-the-Mist

Source: Lud-in-the-Mist

“I am haunted by humans.”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

“In one aspect, yes, I believe in ghosts, but we create them. We haunt ourselves.”

Laurie Halse Anderson Wintergirls

Source: Wintergirls

“Boo, Forever

Spinning like a ghost
on the bottom of a
top,
I'm haunted by all
the space that I
will live without
you.”

Richard Brautigan (1935–1984) American novelist, poet, and short story writer

Source: The Pill vs. the Springhill Mine Disaster

“Good stories will keep haunting me for years. They will mature and want to be born. I can't help it.”

Geling Yan (1958) Chinese writer and screenwriter

Source: "Yan Geling" in South China Morning Post https://www.scmp.com/article/476179/yan-geling (31 October 2004)

“Ghosts don't haunt us. That's not how it works. They're present among us because we won't let go of them."

"I don't believe in ghosts," I said, faintly.

"Some people can't see the color red. That doesn't mean it isn't there," she replied.”

Sue Grafton (1940–2017) American writer

Source: M is for Malice

“We're all of us haunted and haunting.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Lullaby

Source: Lullaby

Related topics