“The moment had gone. I carried my secrets still with me, and they were hard, heavy, bitter things.” — Susan Hill Copy Share Image
I'm really quite hard to scare so it was about mining times when I have jumped, and what creeps me out. — Susan Hill Copy Share Image
Of all human activities, apart from the procreation of children, gardening is the most optimistic and hopeful. The gardener is by definition… — Susan Hill Copy Share Image
I like going into a school matinee. I like to be behind the stage because there's a spy-hole and what you see… — Susan Hill Copy Share Image
Whatever was about, whoever I had seen, and heard rocking, and who had passed me by just now, whoever had opened the… — Susan Hill Copy Share Image
Gardeners celebrate the influence of time. If we have had a late cold spring followed by a desiccating drought, autumn may be… — Susan Hill Copy Share Image
“I have always believed that places with long history, especially those in which terrible events have taken place, retain something of those… — Susan Hill Copy Share Image
“Small children will talk to anyone, once the guard of shyness has fallen, and they have, like the elderly, a sense of… — Susan Hill Copy Share Image
There is a continuity about the garden and an order of succession in the garden year which is deeply pleasing, and in… — Susan Hill Copy Share Image
“I had always known in my heart that the experience would never leave me, that it was now woven into my very… — Susan Hill Copy Share Image
“For a long time, I did not move from the dark, wood-panelled hall. I wanted company, and I had none, lights and… — Susan Hill Copy Share Image
“Here, in the garden at night, it is another world, strange and yet friendly and familiar, never frightening. There is such quietness, such sweetness,… — Susan Hill Copy Share
I read a lot of ghost stories because I was writing a ghost story. I didn't think at all I was writing a horror… — Susan Hill Copy Share
A man may be accused of cowardice for fleeing away from all manner of physical dangers but when things supernatural, insubstantial and inexplicable threaten… — Susan Hill Copy Share
“You try so hard to shield me, and protect me, and really, there is no need, you try so hard to hide what you… — Susan Hill Copy Share
Books help to form us. If you cut me open, you will find volume after volume, page after page, the contents of every one… — Susan Hill Copy Share
Ghost stories ... tell us about things that lie hidden within all of us, and which lurk outside all around us. — Susan Hill Copy Share
“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 Copy Share
“I go downstairs and the books blink at me from the shelves. Or stare. In a trick of the light, a row of them… — Susan Hill Copy Share
“They told of dripping stone walls in uninhabited castles and of ivy-clad monastery ruins by moonlight, of locked inner rooms and secret dungeons, dank… — Susan Hill Copy Share
I had not yet learned that we make our own destiny, it springs from within us. It is not the outward events but what… — Susan Hill Copy Share
“I had always known in my heart that the experience would never leave me, that it was now woven into my very fibers, an… — Susan Hill Copy Share
I have sat here at my desk, day after day, night after night, a blank sheet of paper before me, unable to lift my… — Susan Hill Copy Share
