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Tanith Lee

"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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"A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice."

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"Old foxes want no tutors."

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"Next to the young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish."

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Tanith Lee
"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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"When I am fascinated by something, I like to play with it."

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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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"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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"I like films, or some films, and would be intrigued to see my work on screen."

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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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"I love writers all across the board, but one who influenced me very directly at the beginning was Mary Renault."

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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 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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"The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis."

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