Book Quote by Susan Hill

“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

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

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

“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

“We make our own destiny.”

— Susan Hill

“You don't have to pay its rent just because it is a book.”

— Susan Hill

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

— Susan Hill

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

— Susan Hill

“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

“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

“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

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