Picture 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
Picture Quotes Yes, I definitely prefer the daylight population of the playing fields to that which comes there after dark. — M. R. James
Accept Quotes Do I believe in ghosts?...I am prepared to consider evidence and accept it if it satisfies me. — M. R. James
True Love Quotes, War Quotes You can drive at 16, go to war at 18, drink at 21, and retire at 65. So who can say what age you have to be to find your true love? — M. R. James
Picture Quotes A ghost story of which the scene is laid in the twelfth or thirteenth century may succeed in being romantic or poetical: it will never put the reader into the position of saying to himself: "If I'm not careful, something of this kind may happen to me! — M. R. James
Picture Quotes 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
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