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
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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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.
love loving means people testament
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.
miss orange people
We make our own orange sherbet and I think people miss it in the winter.
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.
running moving people
Some people make tunes, but it is lines that run like moving messages through my head. Whatever else I am saying and doing often has no bearing on this inner, verbal life.
sure
I'm sure they thought they could get it done in Mississippi faster.
life
In another life I would be a medievalist. I loved Chaucer, far more than Shakespeare.
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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.
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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.
entirely reader
Every reader re-creates a novel - in their own imagination, anyway. It's only entirely the writer's when nobody else has read it.
needs president pulling regulate
To be honest, I find it ridiculous; they are pulling it. The president needs to regulate (gasoline prices).
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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.
convincing ghost
It would be difficult to write a convincing ghost story set on a sunny day in a big city.