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- One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- There are different rules for reading, for thinking, and for talking. Writing blends all three of them. — Mason Cooley
- I love writers all across the board, but one who influenced me very directly at the beginning was Mary Renault. — Tanith Lee
- As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm. — Tanith Lee
- The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis. — Tanith Lee