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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. "
Own
Mother
Me
" 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. "
Up
Everyone
School
" Genre categories are irrelevant. I dislike them, but I do not have the casting vote. "
Vote
Dislike
Irrelevant
" 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. "
Care
Because
Love
" 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. "
Good
Writing
Opinion
" 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. "
Magical
Writing
Feel
" I like films, or some films, and would be intrigued to see my work on screen. "
Some
See
Screen
" 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. "
Men
Demons
Writing
" I love writers all across the board, but one who influenced me very directly at the beginning was Mary Renault. "
Me
Very
Love
" 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! "
Love
Me
Head
" I never know where I am going, though. That is part of what makes it so wonderful. And after all, who does? "
Going
Wonderful
Know
" 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. "
Escape
Wish
Work
" I think of myself as a storyteller, and that is it. "
Myself
Storyteller
Think
" 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. "
Myself
Write
Writing
" I've been criticised for writing in too complex a manner for younger people. "
Been
Complex
Younger
" No one is ever ordinary. "
Ordinary
Ever
" 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. "
Me
Start
People
" Pirates have always fascinated me. "
Fascinated
Me
Pirates
" The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis. "
Influence
Important
Early
" When I am fascinated by something, I like to play with it. "
Something
Like
I Am
" Writers tell stories better, because they've had more practice, but everyone has a book in them. Yes, that old cliche. "
Book
Everyone
Practice
" Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and non-fiction. And even there, who can be sure? "
Sure
Writing
Who
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