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.
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.
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.
Ghost stories ... tell us about things that lie hidden within all of us, and which lurk outside all around us.
I'm really quite hard to scare so it was about mining times when I have jumped, and what creeps me out.
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.
I collect Victorian automata and coming across them in the dark does give you a little shudder.
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.
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.
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.
Your world may think what it chooses...but really, opinion and gossip count for nothing at all against truth...
I had changed, and gone on changing, but I did not fully remember how it had begun, or understand why.
We are not punished for our sins, we are punished by them. We can't live with guilt for the whole of our lives..
The moment had gone. I carried my secrets still with me, and they were hard, heavy, bitter things.
It is okay to climb as long as you are not afraid, because being afraid is what made you fall
I was frightened of myself, I seemed to have no control over my thoughts and feelings, it was like a sort of madness...
