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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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"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."
"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."
"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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