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Tanith Lee
September 19, 1947 -
Nationality: British
Category: Writer
Subcategory: British Writer

Genre categories are irrelevant. I dislike them, but I do not have the casting vote.

   

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.

   

I think of myself as a storyteller, and that is it.

   

I've been criticised for writing in too complex a manner for younger people.

   

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.

   

As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.

   

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

   

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

   

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.

   

No one is ever ordinary.

   

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.

   

Writers tell stories better, because they've had more practice, but everyone has a book in them. Yes, that old cliche.

   

I never know where I am going, though. That is part of what makes it so wonderful. And after all, who does?

   

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

   

Pirates have always fascinated me.

   

Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and non-fiction. And even there, who can be sure?

   

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!

   

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.

   

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

   

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