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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. ↗

— Tanith Lee

#dreadful #else #exciting #feel #go

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

#actress #asked #course #early #everyone

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

#because #care #defend #disney #doing

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

— Tanith Lee

#i #intrigued #like #screen #see

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

— Tanith Lee

#beginning #board #directly #i #i love

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

#escape #feared #feeling #hated #i

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! ↗

— Tanith Lee

#else #enjoy #exciting #exciting thing #extraordinary

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. ↗

— Tanith Lee

#enough #fair #good #had #insult

Pirates have always fascinated me. ↗

— Tanith Lee

#fascinated #me #pirates

When I am fascinated by something, I like to play with it. ↗

— Tanith Lee

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