M. R. James Quotes

• If any of [my stories] succeed in causing their readers to feel pleasantly uncomfortable when walking along a solitary road at nightfall, or sitting over a dying fire in the small hours, my purpose in writing them will have been attained.

  M. R. James

  Writing, Fire, Dying

  M. R. James (2011). “Collected Ghost Stories”, p.406, OUP Oxford

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• Do I believe in ghosts?...I am prepared to consider evidence and accept it if it satisfies me.

  M. R. James

  Believe, Ghost, Accepting

  M. R. James (1987). “Casting the Runes and Other Ghost Stories”, p.15, Oxford Paperbacks

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• I heard one cry in the night, and I heard one laugh afterwards. If I cannot forget that, I shall not be able to sleep again.

  M. R. James

  Halloween, Dormir, Noche

  M. R. James (2011). “Collected Ghost Stories”, p.70, OUP Oxford

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• Yes, I definitely prefer the daylight population of the playing fields to that which comes there after dark.

  M. R. James

  Dark, Population, Daylight

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• Reticence may be an elderly doctrine to preach, yet from the artistic point of view I am sure it is a sound one. Reticence conduces to effect, blatancy ruins it.

  M. R. James

  Elderly, Views, Sound

  M.r. James (2016). “Collected Ghost Stories”, p.52, M.r. James

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• Una historia de fantasmas cuyo escenario se sitúa en el siglo XII o XIII puede resultar romántica o poética, pero nunca pondrá al lector en la tesitura de decirse a sí mismo: "¡Si no tengo cuidado, puede ocurrirme algo de este tipo!

  M. R. James

  Ghost Stories, May, Succeed

  M. R. James (1987). “Casting the Runes and Other Ghost Stories”, p.647, Oxford Paperbacks

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