Susan Hill Quotes

United Kingdom, Writer
February 5, 1942

Susan Hill, CBE is 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 Empire (CBE) in the 2012 Birthday Honours for services to literature.

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

Susan Hill
- World
- Book
- Fortune
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.

Susan Hill
- Never
- Poetry
- Hiding

Yorkshire is so much part of me.

Susan Hill
- Part
- Yorkshire
Flashback in film rarely works.

Susan Hill
- Film
- Works
- Flashback
Films always make everyone else rich save the author.

Susan Hill
- Author
- Rich
- Films
Love has an enormous number of connotations, and if somebody is a person who does kind acts as a way of life, if they are generally disposed to being caring and loving and doing things for other people, then kindness is a much stronger word than we make it out to be.

Susan Hill
- Love
- Word
- Caring
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
It would be difficult to write a convincing ghost story set on a sunny day in a big city.

Susan Hill
- City
- Story
- Ghost

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
Kindness is a sort of love without being love.

Susan Hill
- Love
- Kindness
- Sort