Susan Hill
Susan Hill
Susan Hill CBEis 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 Empirein the 2012 Birthday Honours for services to literature...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth5 February 1942
intention run
We're pretty stubborn. Their intention is to run us out; our intention is to stay.
films
Films always make everyone else rich save the author.
entirely reader
Every reader re-creates a novel - in their own imagination, anyway. It's only entirely the writer's when nobody else has read it.
acts caring enormous generally life love loving number somebody stronger word
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.
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I was taught to whistle as a little girl by an undertaker. I used to sit in his workshop, watching him planing wood for the coffins, and he used to whistle all the time - and eventually I started whistling, too. I can whistle anything, particularly trumpet tunes from Classic FM.
either hiding nearest poetry prose seen written
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.
convincing ghost
It would be difficult to write a convincing ghost story set on a sunny day in a big city.
needs president pulling regulate
To be honest, I find it ridiculous; they are pulling it. The president needs to regulate (gasoline prices).
caught endlessly theology
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.
Once you finish a book, you let it go out into the world to seek its fortune.
believed government obligation palin sarah smaller
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.
state
We're realists. We know we're in a state where the Legislature is anti-choice.
life
In another life I would be a medievalist. I loved Chaucer, far more than Shakespeare.
guess hurdles response
If there are more hurdles that we need to go through, I guess that's what we'll be told in a response from the state.