The key word for my book The Woman in Black is unsettling... because you're not terrified all of the time or even frightened, but you're unsettled an…

- Susan Hill

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

Of all human activities, apart from the procreation of children, gardening is the most optimistic and hopeful. The gardener is by definition one who …

- Susan Hill

Books help to form us. If you cut me open, you will find volume after volume, page after page, the contents of every one I have ever read, somehow tr…

- 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 we allow ourselves to make of th…

- Susan Hill

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

- 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 t…

- Susan Hill

For I see that then I was still all in a state of innocence, but that innocence, once lost, is lost forever.

- Susan Hill

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