Susan Hill Quotes
Films always make everyone else rich save the author.
Susan Hill
Quotes to Explore
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I want to be engaged and moved by theatre, there's nothing more disappointing than being left cold. After 'The Author,' I felt wrung out emotionally, like a used tissue.
Samuel Barnett
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In the biographical novel, there's only one person involved. I, the author, spend two to five years becoming the main character. I do that so by the time you get to the bottom of Page 2 or 3, you forget your name, where you live, your profession and the year it is. You become the main character of the book. You live the book.
Irving Stone
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Buy other authors' books when you go to their events. Even if you aren't going to read it. Even if you are going to give it away. Even if you aren't interested. Not just for the author but for the bookstore. It's karma and just plain good manners.
M. J. Rose
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Unlike the stereotypical author, I've never had a job as a short-order cook, but I love cooking hot breakfasts for lots of people, juggling the eggs and the bacon and the tomatoes and the fried potatoes and so on.
Garth Nix
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I just want to be rich and famous.
Ian Hart
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Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.
Samuel Johnson
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If I could remake any Eighties project, it would be less an action flick than a character-driven drama with a rich story to tell.
Omari Hardwick
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While growing up in Baltimore, Maryland, I dreamed of becoming many things: an archaeologist, an ambassador, an actor, an author.
Karen Hesse
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I got a lot of offers after 'Rockstar' but was totally dependent on the team managing my work, who did not want me to sign any of the films I was offered, even though I wanted to.
Nargis Fakhri
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I am my biggest critic. Even in films where people said they liked me, I have disliked myself.
Samantha Ruth Prabhu
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If people are looking forward to my films, then I am happy, and I must be doing something right.
Abhishek Bachchan
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Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.
Samuel Johnson
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This to me is the secret comedy of all author interviews, down through the ages, even the good ones in the 'Paris Review' and places. They're all acting. It's like watching a person in a play.
John Jeremiah Sullivan
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There is nothing to fear, because you cannot fail... only learn, grow and become better than you've ever been before.
Hal Elrod
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Some people play best when they're frustrated and mad. I play my best when I'm happy. I really, truly do.
Megan Rapinoe
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I know all about the despair of overcoming chronic temptation. It is not serious, provided self-offended petulance, annoyance at breaking records, impatience, etc., don't get the upper hand. No amount of falls will really undo us if we keep picking ourselves up each time...The only fatal thing is to lose one's temper and give up.
C. S. Lewis
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Films always make everyone else rich save the author.
Susan Hill
