Susan Hill
Susan Hill
Susan Hill CBEis an English author of fiction and non-fiction works. Her novels include The Woman in Black, The Mist in the Mirror and I'm the King of the Castle for which she received the Somerset Maugham Award in 1971. She was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empirein the 2012 Birthday Honours for services to literature...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth5 February 1942
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I've never written poetry. I'm not a poet, but I think the nearest you get is either the short story or the novella, in that you can't waste a word. There is no hiding place: everything's got to be seen to relate, and the prose counts.
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It would be difficult to write a convincing ghost story set on a sunny day in a big city.
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Every reader re-creates a novel - in their own imagination, anyway. It's only entirely the writer's when nobody else has read it.
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To be honest, I find it ridiculous; they are pulling it. The president needs to regulate (gasoline prices).
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We had to wait for payday to fill up. It's crazy and it's not right.
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I don't understand it when people get cross about how one of their works was adapted and say, 'Oh, they ruined it!' Well, the book is still there.
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I was taught to whistle as a little girl by an undertaker. I used to sit in his workshop, watching him planing wood for the coffins, and he used to whistle all the time - and eventually I started whistling, too. I can whistle anything, particularly trumpet tunes from Classic FM.
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Love has an enormous number of connotations, and if somebody is a person who does kind acts as a way of life, if they are generally disposed to being caring and loving and doing things for other people, then kindness is a much stronger word than we make it out to be.
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Why should Mississippi women not have access to services that other women have? I grew up in the South. I know the South. The women there are wonderful. They work hard, and shouldn't have less rights than other American women.
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Without turning prison life into something more meaningful, prisoners are more likely to reoffend.
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Films always make everyone else rich save the author.
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The New Testament is about loving other people as you love yourself. That means caring for them and looking after them and being kind to them.
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It's easy to write a short story and frighten people for five pages, but to work at length, when you do it as in 'The Turn Of The Screw' or 'A Christmas Carol,' it's different; you have to build it and build it.
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The one thing the Victorians really believed in was philanthropy. I think we've forgotten the obligation to be philanthropic. I think we need smaller government, but I want to make it clear I'm not the Sarah Palin of the Cotswolds.