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
enjoyed ghost seemed stories terribly wrote
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.
ghost incredibly screw though
Though they don't always have to be set in fog, weather is incredibly important in ghost stories. As is suspense: you've got to turn the screw very, very slowly.
convincing ghost
It would be difficult to write a convincing ghost story set on a sunny day in a big city.
ghost quietly rises three
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.
lying ghost-stories stories
Ghost stories ... tell us about things that lie hidden within all of us, and which lurk outside all around us.
writing thinking ghost-stories
I read a lot of ghost stories because I was writing a ghost story. I didn't think at all I was writing a horror or a thriller or whatever because it is about a ghost, whereas a horror film can be about aliens or things that rise out of the marsh that have no human shape.
child good
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.
chance good issue
I think there's a good chance there's going to be an issue ... that would have to be litigated.
crazy fill wait
We had to wait for payday to fill up. It's crazy and it's not right.
love
Kindness is a sort of love without being love.
challenge
We will challenge it. We're not going anywhere. We're going to keep open.
access grew less rights services women work
Why should Mississippi women not have access to services that other women have? I grew up in the South. I know the South. The women there are wonderful. They work hard, and shouldn't have less rights than other American women.
life likely prison prisoners turning
Without turning prison life into something more meaningful, prisoners are more likely to reoffend.
brick choice frame given notice short tear time upset
What has us most upset is the short time frame and short notice we were given about this, ... They said they were going to tear up our brick sidewalks, and that we pretty much didn't have a choice in the matter.