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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."
"I love writers all across the board, but one who influenced me very directly at the beginning was Mary Renault."
"I like writing about women, weak and strong, pathetic and heroic. I like writing about men, ditto. And all the variants of men and women, beasts and demons."
"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."
"It's very selfish when I write. I'm not aware, ever, of writing for another person; I'm not even really aware of writing for myself."
"I also love Disney, and will defend doing so, because there's so much in those films and I don't care if it's stereotyped."
"The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis."
"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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