British - Writer | September 19, 1947 - May 24, 2015
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.
Tanith Lee
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I think of myself as a storyteller, and that is it.
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Genre categories are irrelevant. I dislike them, but I do not have the casting vote.
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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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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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When I am fascinated by something, I like to play with it.
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I like films, or some films, and would be intrigued to see my work on screen.
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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.
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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 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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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.
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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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