16 Susan Hill Quotes for You to Enjoy

Susan Hill

English Author

Born: Feb 5, 1942

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Related authors: A. A. Milne H. G. Wells J. K. Rowling Lewis Carroll Mary Shelley Samuel Johnson Simon Sinek Terry Pratchett

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. Susan Hill

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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. Susan Hill

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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. Susan Hill

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Flashback in film rarely works. Susan Hill

Rarely Flashback Works Film

Yorkshire is so much part of me. Susan Hill

Me Part Yorkshire Much

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. Susan Hill

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I don't really do jolly. I don't know why, I just don't. Susan Hill

Jolly Know Just Really Why

In another life I would be a medievalist. I loved Chaucer, far more than Shakespeare. Susan Hill

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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. Susan Hill

Certainly with a book, people are going to be able to read it and give themselves permission to have that delicious feeling of being terrified because they're in a safe place while they're reading. That's what you can rely on as a writer, that people can let themselves be really frightened because they're really all right. Susan Hill

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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. Susan Hill

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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. Susan Hill

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Once you finish a book, you let it go out into the world to seek its fortune. Susan Hill

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Ice cream goes with spring. Susan Hill

Spring Ice Cream

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