English - Author | February 5, 1942 -
I don't really do jolly. I don't know why, I just don't.
Susan Hill
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Flashback in film rarely works.
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It would be difficult to write a convincing ghost story set on a sunny day in a big city.
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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.
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Kindness is a sort of love without being love.
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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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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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Without turning prison life into something more meaningful, prisoners are more likely to reoffend.
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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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In another life I would be a medievalist. I loved Chaucer, far more than Shakespeare.
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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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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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