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
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.
adapted people ruined works
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.
crazy fill wait
We had to wait for payday to fill up. It's crazy and it's not right.
chance good issue
I think there's a good chance there's going to be an issue ... that would have to be litigated.
believed government obligation palin sarah smaller
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.
work writers
A lot of writers want everything put on screen, but it doesn't work like that. The screenwriter brings her own imaginative interpretation, just as the director and actors do.
willing
and I'm not willing to give it up.
closer woman women
The closer a woman can be to a clinic, the better her aftercare usually is.
school spy theatre
I like going into a school matinee. I like to be behind the stage because there's a spy-hole and what you see is the best moment in all theatre.
trying-everything laughing way
It's just occurred to me that some horror films everybody laughs because they're so ridiculous and they're so frightening in a way, the filmmakers' are trying everything, that they just end up being funny.
lying ghost-stories stories
Ghost stories ... tell us about things that lie hidden within all of us, and which lurk outside all around us.