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
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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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We're realists. We know we're in a state where the Legislature is anti-choice.
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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.
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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.
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We're going to make every attempt to meet the standards,
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If you were writing a short ghost story, I would say start very quietly and go, 'One, two, three jump.' Or start with a jump and make it jumpier. But with a long story, it must have rises and falls.
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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.
I don't really do jolly. I don't know why, I just don't.
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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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We will challenge it. We're not going anywhere. We're going to keep open.
films
Films always make everyone else rich save the author.
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Without turning prison life into something more meaningful, prisoners are more likely to reoffend.
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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.
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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.