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...
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Date of Birth5 February 1942
brick choice frame given notice short tear time upset
What has us most upset is the short time frame and short notice we were given about this, ... They said they were going to tear up our brick sidewalks, and that we pretty much didn't have a choice in the matter.
attempt meet
We're going to make every attempt to meet the standards,
continue intend intention leaving provide services
We have no intention of leaving and we intend to continue to provide the services that we're providing. It won't be easy, but we're staying.
state
We're realists. We know we're in a state where the Legislature is anti-choice.
ghost incredibly screw though
Though they don't always have to be set in fog, weather is incredibly important in ghost stories. As is suspense: you've got to turn the screw very, very slowly.
Once you finish a book, you let it go out into the world to seek its fortune.
caught endlessly theology
Theology is endlessly interesting in that you can study it without believing in anything. I do believe, but you don't have to. I got very caught up in the 11th-century monasticism and the Cistercians. My dissertation was about Aelred of Rievaulx and one of his books.
child good
I was an only child who was never really good at anything else. I had no other option. I could write; I wanted to write; I wrote. Otherwise, I was unemployable.
chance good issue
I think there's a good chance there's going to be an issue ... that would have to be litigated.
love
Kindness is a sort of love without being love.
enjoyed ghost seemed stories terribly wrote
I wrote ghost stories because I'd always enjoyed reading them, and they seemed to be fizzling out... I don't take them terribly seriously. It's like a cake, with ingredients.
miss orange people
We make our own orange sherbet and I think people miss it in the winter.
intention run
We're pretty stubborn. Their intention is to run us out; our intention is to stay.
guess hurdles response
If there are more hurdles that we need to go through, I guess that's what we'll be told in a response from the state.