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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
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#Child
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#Never
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Yorkshire is so much part of me.
- Susan Hill
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#Much
#Part
#Yorkshire
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
#Everything
#Interpretation
#Own
#Work
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
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#More
#People
#Same Thing
#Why
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
#Always
#Cake
#Like
#Reading
#Seriously
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.
- Susan Hill
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#Kindness
#Life
#Love
#Way
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.
- Susan Hill
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#Sit
#Time
#Watching
#Wood
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.
- Susan Hill
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#Never
#Place
#Poetry
#Story
In another life I would be a medievalist. I loved Chaucer, far more than Shakespeare.
- Susan Hill
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#Life
#Loved
#More
#Would
Flashback in film rarely works.
- Susan Hill
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#Flashback
#Rarely
#Works
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.
- Susan Hill
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#Important
#Suspense
#Weather
It would be difficult to write a convincing ghost story set on a sunny day in a big city.
- Susan Hill
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#Big
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#Day
#Difficult
I don't really do jolly. I don't know why, I just don't.
- Susan Hill
#Jolly
#Just
#Know
#Really
#Why
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
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#Long
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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
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#Easy
#People
#Short
#Work
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