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.
From Tanith Lee
No one is ever ordinary.
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.
Pirates have always fascinated me.
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.
Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and non-fiction. And even there, who can be sure?
Writers tell stories better, because they've had more practice, but everyone has a book in them. Yes, that old cliche.
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.
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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