A book which is left on a shelf...... "Susan Hill"の名言

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 Howards End is on the Landing: A Year of Reading from Home

タグ: susan-hill, reading, literature, inspirational, inspiration, books, book

"Susan Hill"の他の名言

The one thing the Victorians really believed in was philanthropy. I think we've forgotten the obligation to be philanthropic. I think we need smaller government, but I want to make it clear I'm not the Sarah Palin of the Cotswolds.
— Susan Hill

タグ: need, want, think, government

If you were writing a short ghost story, I would say start very quietly and go, 'One, two, three jump.' Or start with a jump and make it jumpier. But with a long story, it must have rises and falls.
— Susan Hill

タグ: start, go, long, you

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

タグ: classic, some, who, only

Flashback in film rarely works.
— Susan Hill

タグ: rarely, works, film

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

タグ: far, more, loved, life