Susan Hill Quotes
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.
Quotes to Explore
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The sun never sets on my gallery.
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I have never believed in the impossible.
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Love can never be fully explained.
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I've never had to explain 'Prometheus' to people, ever. Most people get it.
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At times, our circumstances call for us to make critical choices to keep our covenants or to compromise them. Covenants should never be compromised, even when at the moment some circumstances might seem to justify it.
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The power to command has never meant the power to remain mysterious.
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It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.
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I have never received a Farthing of Prize Money either for Artillery Ammunition or Vessels.
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No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew her, will remember her.
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I never worked in an office in my life.
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Lots of people have objections to prizes of all types, and it would be extraordinary if everybody agreed on anything that's worthwhile - they never do.
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What I tend to get from America is very enthusiastic letters and e-mail from librarians and schoolteachers, the gatekeepers, though I hesitate to use that word. I've never been a huge seller.
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The juices never stop flowing. I still write songs.
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I can't think of a more pathetic situation for an actor than to do a film and not connect to it. And I pray to God that I never face that situation.
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I never considered myself a fall guy. I know what I did. I know why I did it. I'm not ashamed of it.
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Kubrick's films have life - they just never die.
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I just never subscribed to the theory that at age 55, you fall off the face of the earth on the Tour. I always felt that was too young of an age for that.
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'The One-Eyed Man' is a novel that was one I never intended to write.
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Chords that were broken will vibrate once more.
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Said the self-righteous preacher, 'What, in your judgment, is the greatest sin in the world?' 'That of the person who sees other human beings as sinners,' said the Master.
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Writing is one of the few activities where quantity will inevitably make quality. The more you write, the better you're going to get at it.
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When soon I sail from here, I may again run into such a storm as the one in Kvasefjord. But this time I shall clearly understand that it is not a play in the theatre, but it is death. and it seems too that then, in the last moment before we go down, I can in in all truth be yours...
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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.
