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 More Quotes by Susan Hill More Quotes From Susan Hill Theology is endlessly interesting in that you can study it without believing in anything. I do believe, but you don't have to. I got very caught up in the 11th-century monasticism and the Cistercians. My dissertation was about Aelred of Rievaulx and one of his books. Susan Hill you study believe interesting I have only read very classic traditional English ghost stories, other than Henry James, who wrote some magnificent short ones as well as the longer 'Turn of the Screw.' He, Dickens, and M.R. James are my influences. Susan Hill short english some classic Once you finish a book, you let it go out into the world to seek its fortune. Susan Hill go you book world 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 nobody only own imagination 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 say understand book people Without turning prison life into something more meaningful, prisoners are more likely to reoffend. Susan Hill more something prison life 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 classic i-can girl time
