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Men have looked upon the desert as barren land, the free holding of whoever chose; but in fact each hill and valley in it had a man who was its acknowledged owner and would quickly assert the right of his family or clan to it, against aggression.
Nine-tenths of tactics are certain, and taught in books: but the irrational tenth is like the kingfisher flashing across the pool, and that is the test of generals.
Some of the evil of my tale may have been inherent in our circumstances. For years we lived anyhow with one another in the naked desert, under the indifferent heaven.
The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.
The people of England have been led in Mesopotamia into a trap from which it will be hard to escape with dignity and honor.
The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander.
This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought.
To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one's tail.
To me an unnecessary action, or shot, or casualty, was not only waste but sin.
As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.
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.
Genre categories are irrelevant. I dislike them, but I do not have the casting vote.
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.
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.
I like films, or some films, and would be intrigued to see my work on 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.
I love writers all across the board, but one who influenced me very directly at the beginning was Mary Renault.
I never know where I am going, though. That is part of what makes it so wonderful. And after all, who does?
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.
I think of myself as a storyteller, and that is it.
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