KeenBrain
KeenBrain
KeenBrain

Susan Hill Quotes


Share this page on

Quotes by Susan Hill

Showing 11-20 of 26 Quotes by Susan Hill

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

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I'm not one of those people who hates Amazon because they're big. Why pay a third more for the same thing?

~Susan Hill

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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.

~Susan Hill

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


If you were writing a short ghost story, I would say start very quietly and go, 'One, two, three jump.' Or start with a jump and make it jumpier. But with a long story, it must have rises and falls.

~Susan Hill

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Yorkshire is so much part of me.

~Susan Hill

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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.

~Susan Hill

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

~Susan Hill

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Films always make everyone else rich save the author.

~Susan Hill

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Author

Born: February 5th, 1942

Links

Find Susan Hill on Amazon

Related Authors

Lewis Carroll
John Galsworthy
Samuel Johnson
A. A. Milne
Terry Pratchett
J. K. Rowling
Simon Sinek
H. G. Wells

Popular Authors

Susan B. Anthony Joyce Brothers Mitch Hedberg Steve Jobs Shiv Khera J. K. Rowling Alan Watts Robin Williams

Change your beliefs...change your life.

Get a related quote or insight every day.

(it's 100% free)

Follow Us On

Today's Birthdays

1878 - Joseph Stalin

1835 - Lyman Abbott

1852 - George H. White

1859 - Francis Thompson

1870 - Hector Hugh Munro

1886 - Ty Cobb

1888 - Robert Moses

1890 - Edwin Armstrong

1904 - George Stevens

1907 - Christopher Fry

Birthdays on December 18th
All Birthdays

Popular Topics

Christmas Computers Courage Faith Inspirational Money Smile Valentine's Day