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Tanith Lee
Tanith Lee
British Writer
Born: Sep 19, 1947
Died: May 24, 2015
Always Fascinated Love Me People Writing
Related authors: Alan Moore Arthur Conan Doyle J. B. Priestley Jane Austen Lawrence Durrell Mary Wollstonecraft Norman Douglas Tom Hodgkinson
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. Tanith Lee
Love Writing World Somewhere Else Dreadful Possibly Magical More Somewhere Else Exciting Feel Real Go Than Just So-Called Real World Much Belong
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. Tanith Lee
Women Writing Strong Men Men And Women Heroic Weak About Beasts Like Demons Pathetic
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
Work Feeling Wish Hated Feared Drudgery Normal Escape Submitted Much Should Manuscripts Published Publishers
I think of myself as a storyteller, and that is it. Tanith Lee
Myself Think Storyteller
Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and non-fiction. And even there, who can be sure? Tanith Lee
Writing Only True Perhaps Genres Non-Fiction Sure Fiction Stories Who Even
As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm. Tanith Lee
Me Mother Invention Own Too She Fairy Reverse Norm Lots Child Stories Many Her
When I am fascinated by something, I like to play with it. Tanith Lee
Something Like Am Fascinated Play
No one is ever ordinary. Tanith Lee
No-One Ordinary Ever
Pirates have always fascinated me. Tanith Lee
Me Always Pirates Fascinated
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. Tanith Lee
School Everyone Silly About Silly Things Writer Course Said Up Wanted Grew Asked Actress Things Early
I love writers all across the board, but one who influenced me very directly at the beginning was Mary Renault. Tanith Lee
Love Me Beginning Directly Mary Writers Very Influenced Board Across Who
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. Tanith Lee
Love Care Will Films Those Also Because Doing Much Disney Defend

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