Susan Hill Quotes

Here, we’ve compiled a list of the best Susan Hill Quotes. The wide variety of quotes available makes it possible to find a quote to suit your needs. You’ve likely heard some of the Susan Hill Quotes before, but that’s because they truly are great.

1

The New Testament is about loving other people as you l

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.

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2

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.

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3

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.

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4

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

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5

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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6

I was an only child who was never really good at anything else. I had no other option. I could write; I wanted to write; I wrote. Otherwise, I was unemployable.

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7

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

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8

Flashback in film rarely works.

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9

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.

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10

A lot of writers want everything put on screen, but it doesn’t work like that. The screenwriter brings her own imaginative interpretation, just as the director and actors do.

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11

Films always make everyone else rich save the author.

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12

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.

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13

Every reader re-creates a novel – in their own imagination, anyway. It’s only entirely the writer’s when nobody else has read it.

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14

Kindness is a sort of love without being love.

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15

I don’t really do jolly. I don’t know why, I just don’t.

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