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Susan Hill quotes: We are not punished for our sins, we are punished by them. We can't live with guilt for the whole of our lives..

We are not punished for our sins, we are punished by them. We can't live with guilt for the whole of our lives..

Susan Hill quotes: 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.

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.

Susan Hill quotes: How many selves do we contain, like Russian dolls concealed within one another.

How many selves do we contain, like Russian dolls concealed within one another.

Susan Hill quotes: It would be difficult to write a convincing ghost story set on a sunny day in a big city.

It would be difficult to write a convincing ghost story set on a sunny day in a big city.

Susan Hill quotes: In another life I would be a medievalist. I loved Chaucer, far more than Shakespeare.

In another life I would be a medievalist. I loved Chaucer, far more than Shakespeare.

Susan Hill quotes: ...I was forced to live through it all, every minute and then every day thereafter...

...I was forced to live through it all, every minute and then every day thereafter...

Susan Hill quotes: The moment had gone. I carried my secrets still with me, and they were hard, heavy, bitter things.

The moment had gone. I carried my secrets still with me, and they were hard, heavy, bitter things.

Susan Hill quotes: 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.

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 quotes: I don't understand it when people get cross about how one of their works was adapted and say, 'Oh, they ruined it!' Well, the book is still there.

I don't understand it when people get cross about how one of their works was adapted and say, 'Oh, they ruined it!' Well, the book is still there.

Susan Hill quotes: I had changed, and gone on changing, but I did not fully remember how it had begun, or understand why.

I had changed, and gone on changing, but I did not fully remember how it had begun, or understand why.

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

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

Susan Hill quotes: ...the past still held secrets, the past threw its shadows...

...the past still held secrets, the past threw its shadows...

Susan Hill quotes: I had been right, this was just the sort of place where superstition and tittle-tattle were rife, and even allowed to hold sway over commonsense. Now,

I had been right, this was just the sort of place where superstition and tittle-tattle were rife, and even allowed to hold sway over commonsense. Now,

Susan Hill quotes: It is okay to climb as long as you are not afraid, because being afraid is what made you fall

It is okay to climb as long as you are not afraid, because being afraid is what made you fall

Susan Hill quotes: ...everything had changed, and she had crumpled in front of me, and become wholly broken and lost...

...everything had changed, and she had crumpled in front of me, and become wholly broken and lost...

Susan Hill quotes: Your world may think what it chooses...but really, opinion and gossip count for nothing at all against truth...

Your world may think what it chooses...but really, opinion and gossip count for nothing at all against truth...

Susan Hill quotes: 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 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.

Susan Hill quotes: There are some temptations that cannot be resisted, some lessons we never learn.

There are some temptations that cannot be resisted, some lessons we never learn.

Susan Hill quotes: I was frightened of myself, I seemed to have no control over my thoughts and feelings, it was like a sort of madness...

I was frightened of myself, I seemed to have no control over my thoughts and feelings, it was like a sort of madness...

Susan Hill quotes: I would act, pretend, and the pretense would become real.

I would act, pretend, and the pretense would become real.

Susan Hill quotes: I felt dead and sick inside.

I felt dead and sick inside.

Susan Hill quotes: Every reader re-creates a novel - in their own imagination, anyway. It's only entirely the writer's when nobody else has read it.

Every reader re-creates a novel - in their own imagination, anyway. It's only entirely the writer's when nobody else has read it.

Susan Hill quotes: Ghost stories ... tell us about things that lie hidden within all of us, and which lurk outside all around us.

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

Susan Hill quotes: I collect Victorian automata and coming across them in the dark does give you a little shudder.

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

Susan Hill quotes: 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.

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.

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.

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

Susan Hill quotes: I'm not one of those people who hates Amazon because they're big. Why pay a third more for the same thing?

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 quotes: Yorkshire is so much part of me.

Yorkshire is so much part of me.

Susan Hill quotes: There were some things I could never begin to know about.

There were some things I could never begin to know about.

Susan Hill quotes: Without turning prison life into something more meaningful, prisoners are more likely to reoffend.

Without turning prison life into something more meaningful, prisoners are more likely to reoffend.

Susan Hill quotes: I don't really do jolly. I don't know why, I just don't.

I don't really do jolly. I don't know why, I just don't.

Susan Hill quotes: Once you finish a book, you let it go out into the world to seek its fortune.

Once you finish a book, you let it go out into the world to seek its fortune.

Susan Hill quotes: We make our own destiny.

We make our own destiny.

Susan Hill quotes: Kindness is a sort of love without being love.

Kindness is a sort of love without being love.

Susan Hill quotes: Films always make everyone else rich save the author.

Films always make everyone else rich save the author.