When I started as a writer, I knew nothing about publishing-nothing about anything! — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
I've been criticised for writing in too complex a manner for younger people. — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
“(Oscar) Wilde is surely one of the most erotic writers who ever lived.” — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis. — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
We need the expressive arts, the ancient scribes, the storytellers, the priests. — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and non-fiction. And even there, who can be… — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
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… — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and nonfiction. And even there, who can be… — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
I simply write what I want, wish, long to write… The state of human life and the god or demon within. The… — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
I'm writing what comes into my head, or through me, or from somewhere else, and it is the most extraordinary, exciting thing.… — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
Writers tell stories better, because they've had more practice, but everyone has a book in them. Yes, that old cliche. — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
I love writers all across the board, but one who influenced me very directly at the beginning was Mary Renault. — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
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… — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
I was born in North London in 1947. I didn't learn to read until I was almost 8-partly bad schooling, and partly… — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
Some writers, of course, simply write, as they feel they are driven to do, by outer/inner inspirations. If, after the work is… — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
For me, everyone I write of is real. I have little true say in what they want, what they do or end… — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
We need the expressive arts, the ancient scribes, the storytellers, the priests. And that's where I put myself: as a storyteller. Not… — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
I held out my book. It was precious to me, as were all the things I'd written; even where I despised their… — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
At an early school, when I was about 5, they asked what we wanted to be when we grew up. Everyone said… — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
I must suppose that reading wonderful writers may, inadvertently, teach an avid reader a great deal -- not only about life and… — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
If anyone ever wonders why there's nothing coming from me, it's not my fault. I'm doing the work. No, I haven't deteriorated… — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
“When I write, I go to live inside the book. By which I mean, mentally I can experience everything I’m writing about.… — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
In the usual way I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as… — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
Now, writing every day, and being paid for it and encouraged to do it, it was as if, in the midst of… — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
I like writing about women, weak and strong, pathetic and heroic. I like writing about men, ditto. And all the variants of… — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
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… — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as a wish to escape… — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
The humble were the elect of God. Did not the priests teach so, in their gemmed, kingly robes, from their towering pulpits? — Tanith Lee Copy Share
“Having told of so much beauty, how is it possible to tell of her? There are no words left on the earth in any… — Tanith Lee Copy Share
As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm. — Tanith Lee Copy Share
“Often misunderstood, Dionysus is far more than a wine deity. He is the Breaker of Chains, who rescues not only the flesh but the… — Tanith Lee Copy Share
In the usual way I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as a wish… — Tanith Lee Copy Share
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… — Tanith Lee Copy Share
“Louisa beheld the grounds and house with the calm pleasure of one who has seen nothing, been nowhere, expects everything, and has little imagination.” — Tanith Lee Copy Share
“All the Scarabae—all but one—were crowded in the garden. They watched her. Their grim old faces gave away nothing. Like elderly kiddies at a… — Tanith Lee Copy Share
“She did this not out of fear of him, but out of pity. Because she had come to see the ultimate terrible truth behind… — Tanith Lee Copy Share
Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and nonfiction. And even there, who can be sure? — Tanith Lee Copy Share
“Tanaquil gently toed the peeve. "I'll unfasten the window. Jump out to the lower roof and run." "Stay and bite," said the peeve.” — Tanith Lee Copy Share
