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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.
Tanith Lee
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Tanith Lee
Age: 67 †
Born: 1947
Born: September 19
Died: 2015
Died: May 24
Novelist
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Science Fiction Writer
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London
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Esther Garber
Judas Garbah
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It was not apathy. It was an intelligent disinterest in those things that could have no bearing on one's existence.
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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.
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I like films, or some films, and would be intrigued to see my work on screen.
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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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Your dreams will betray you. Go nowhere on a horse that fades.
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