Zitat des Tages von Susan Hill:
Every reader re-creates a novel - in their own imagination, anyway. It's only entirely the writer's when nobody else has read it.
In another life I would be a medievalist. I loved Chaucer, far more than Shakespeare.
Once you finish a book, you let it go out into the world to seek its fortune.
Yorkshire is so much part of me.
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.
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.
Flashback in film 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.
I'm not one of those people who hates Amazon because they're big. Why pay a third more for the same thing?