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Tanith Lee

"As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm."

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"As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm."

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"I've been criticised for writing in too complex a manner for younger people."
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"If they had said my writing wasn't good enough, fair enough, that's an opinion. But to say it's too complex is to insult the intelligence of the so-called young."
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"Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and non-fiction. And even there, who can be sure?"
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"People are always the start for me... animals, when I can get into their heads, gods, supernatural beings, immortals, the dead... these are all people to me."
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"At an early school, when I was about 5, they asked what we wanted to be when we grew up. Everyone said silly things, and I said I wanted to be an actress. So that was what I wanted to be, but what I was, of course, was a writer."
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"Writers tell stories better, because they've had more practice, but everyone has a book in them. Yes, that old cliche."
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"I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as a wish to escape the feared and hated drudgery of normal work."
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"I'm writing what comes into my head, or through me, or from somewhere else, and it is the most extraordinary, exciting thing. I love it, and I'm very greedy, and I really enjoy it!"
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"I just love writing. It's magical, it's somewhere else to go, it's somewhere much more dreadful, somewhere much more exciting. Somewhere I feel I belong, possibly more than in the so-called real world."
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"I love writers all across the board, but one who influenced me very directly at the beginning was Mary Renault."
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