Susie Bright

Finding people who get enormous pleasure from reading books is a more and more unusual experience, and so writers just so much want to be heard.

I had a hard time publishing my books in the beginning of my career, because editors were afraid what people would think of THEM, personally, if their name was associated with me.

I love turning my daughter on to old movies.

I think that, in almost all human beings, there is buried a profound tribal instinct that makes us very susceptible to being aroused to patriotic fervour.

Writing in form is a way of developing your thinking - your thinking along with the tradition. In a way, it's not you alone, it's you in partnership.

I'm interested in the psychological exploration of human nature, and it just happens to come in the form of film-making.