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
I don't really do jolly. I don't know why, I just don't.
hates people
I'm not one of those people who hates Amazon because they're big. Why pay a third more for the same thing?
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I'm especially outraged they didn't even wait until the deadline, ... I'm just so disappointed. I understand that in the whole scheme of things, it's just a sidewalk, but it's still something that's important to residents.
ghost quietly rises three
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.
life
In another life I would be a medievalist. I loved Chaucer, far more than Shakespeare.
closer woman women
The closer a woman can be to a clinic, the better her aftercare usually is.
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.
classic english henry james longer wrote
I have only read very classic traditional English ghost stories, other than Henry James, who wrote some magnificent short ones as well as the longer 'Turn of the Screw.' He, Dickens, and M.R. James are my influences.
sure
I'm sure they thought they could get it done in Mississippi faster.
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.
book doors keys
The key word for my book The Woman in Black is unsettling... because you're not terrified all of the time or even frightened, but you're unsettled and once you're unsettled, then the door's open.