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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Without turning prison life into something more meaningful, prisoners are more likely to reoffend. Susan Hill Read Quote
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 Read Quote
In another life I would be a medievalist. I loved Chaucer, far more than Shakespeare. Susan Hill Read Quote
I was an only child who was never really good at anything else. I had no other option. I could write; I wanted to write; I wrote. Otherwise, I was unemployable. Susan Hill Read Quote
A lot of writers want everything put on screen, but it doesn’t work like that. The screenwriter brings her own imaginative interpretation, just as the director and actors do. Susan Hill Read Quote