Tanith Lee

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.

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These are some quotes by British author Tanith Lee Writer, who was born on September 19, 1947.

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

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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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