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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.

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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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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.

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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!

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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.

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No one is ever ordinary.

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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.

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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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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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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.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Writer

Born: September 19th, 1947

Died: May 24th, 2015

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