Susan Hill Quotes

• For I see that then I was still all in a state of innocence, but that innocence, once lost, is lost forever.

  Susan Hill

  Forever, Innocence, Lost

  Susan Hill (1986). “The Woman in Black”

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• Books help to form us. If you cut me open, you will find volume after volume, page after page, the contents of every one I have ever read, somehow transmuted and transformed into me just as my genes and the soul within me make me uniquely me, so I am the unique sum of the books I have read. I am my literary DNA.

  Susan Hill

  Book, Cutting, Unique

  FaceBook post by Susan Hill from Apr 01, 2013

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• Un hombre puede ser acusado de cobardía por huir de todo tipo de peligros físicos, pero cuando las cosas sobrenaturales, insustanciales e inexplicables amenazan no sólo su seguridad y bienestar, sino su cordura, su alma más íntima, entonces la retirada no es un signo de debilidad, sino el camino más prudente.

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  Men, Safety, Soul

  FaceBook post by Susan Hill from Nov 01, 2014

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• Ghost stories ... tell us about things that lie hidden within all of us, and which lurk outside all around us.

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  Lying, Ghost Stories, Stories

  Susan Hill (1983). “Ghost stories”

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• I have sat here at my desk, day after day, night after night, a blank sheet of paper before me, unable to lift my pen, trembling and weeping too.

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  Night, Paper, Desks

  Susan Hill (1986). “The Woman in Black”

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• Of all human activities, apart from the procreation of children, gardening is the most optimistic and hopeful. The gardener is by definition one who plans for and believes and trusts in a future, whether in the short or the longer term.

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  Children, Believe, Optimistic

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• I had not yet learned that we make our own destiny, it springs from within us. It is not the outward events but what we allow ourselves to make of them that count.

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  Spring, Destiny, Events

  Susan Hill (1993). “Mrs. de Winter”, Random House (UK)

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• Me encanta el libro. Me encanta sentir un libro en mis manos, lo compacto que es, su forma, su tamaño. Me encanta el tacto del papel. El sonido que hace al pasar una página. Me encanta la belleza de la impresión sobre papel, los diseños, las formas, los tipos de letra. Me asombra la versatilidad y practicidad del libro. Es tan sencillo. Es tan adecuado para su propósito. Puede que me ofrezca mero contenido, pero ningún lector electrónico me dará jamás ese tipo de placer añadido.

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  Book, Simple, Hands

  FaceBook post by Susan Hill from Feb 05, 2013

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• The key word for my book The Woman in Black is unsettling... because you're not terrified all of the time or even frightened, but you're unsettled and once you're unsettled, then the door's open.

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  Libro, Llaves, Puertas

  Fuente: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• A book which is left on a shelf is a dead thing but it is also a chrysalis, an inanimate object packed with the potential to burst into new life.

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  Book, Inanimate Objects, New Life

  Susan Hill (2010). “Howards End is on the Landing: A Year of Reading from Home”, p.2, Profile Books

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• There is a continuity about the garden and an order of succession in the garden year which is deeply pleasing, and in one sense there are no breaks or divisions - seed time flows on to flowering time and harvest time; no sooner is one thing dying than another is coming to life.

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  Life, Time, Garden

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• Los jardineros celebran la influencia del tiempo. Si hemos tenido una primavera fría y tardía seguida de una sequía desecante, el otoño puede ser el más suave y dorado de los últimos años; una mala estación se verá compensada tarde o temprano por otra.

  Susan Hill

  Time, Spring, Autumn

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• Ciertamente, con un libro, la gente va a poder leerlo y darse permiso para tener esa deliciosa sensación de estar aterrorizada porque está en un lugar seguro mientras lee. Eso es en lo que puedes confiar como escritor, en que la gente pueda permitirse estar realmente asustada porque realmente está bien. Tener miedo cuando no estás seguro de estar bien es una gran diferencia.

  Susan Hill

  Book, Reading, Differences

  Fuente: www.denofgeek.com

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• 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.

  Susan Hill

  Writing, Thinking, Ghost Stories

  Fuente: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I like going into a school matinee. I like to be behind the stage because there's a spy-hole and what you see is the best moment in all theatre.

  Susan Hill

  School, Spy, Theatre

  Fuente: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• It's just occurred to me that some horror films everybody laughs because they're so ridiculous and they're so frightening in a way, the filmmakers' are trying everything, that they just end up being funny.

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  Trying Everything, Laughing, Way

  Fuente: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I'm really quite hard to scare so it was about mining times when I have jumped, and what creeps me out.

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  Scare, Creeps, Hard

  Fuente: www.denofgeek.com

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• I collect Victorian automata and coming across them in the dark does give you a little shudder.

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  Dark, Giving, Doe

  Fuente: www.denofgeek.com

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• My head reeled at the sheer and startling beauty, the wide, bare openness of it. The sense of space, the vastness of the sky above and on either side made my heart race, I would have travelled a thousand miles to see this. I had never imagined such a place.

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  Heart, Race, Sky

  Susan Hill (1986). “The Woman in Black”

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• Whatever was about, whoever I had seen, and heard rocking, and who had passed me by just now, whoever had opened the locked door was not 'real'. No. But what was 'real'? At that moment I began to doubt my own reality.

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  Real, Doors, Doubt

  Susan Hill (1986). “The Woman in Black”

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• Some people make tunes, but it is lines that run like moving messages through my head. Whatever else I am saying and doing often has no bearing on this inner, verbal life.

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  Correr, Moverse, Personas

  FaceBook post by Susan Hill from Jul 18, 2012

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• This gardener will be out in the very early morning and from late afternoon, attentive to small changes in the quality of light and the atmosphere, as well as to every nuance of the season, which combine to create perfection.

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  Morning, Small Changes, Light

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• The more contemplative gardener, seeing the garden as a whole, the design of it, and its nature as a still place of delight and refreshment, will wait and hope for the moment when it seems to achieve perfection. Awareness of when such moments are most likely helps to make them happen; they will not be entirely accidental but anticipated; everything will be planned to encourage them.

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  Garden, Perfection, Waiting

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