Tanith Lee

It's lovely. I hate it.

— Tanith Lee

“Azhrarn, Lord of Terrors, terrified.”

— Tanith Lee

Whatever the hell I am, I am Me.

— Tanith Lee

It was so useful to lie with the truth.

— Tanith Lee

No one more cynical than an idealist.

— Tanith Lee

“Go nowhere on a horse that fades.”

— Tanith Lee

Pirates have always fascinated me.

— Tanith Lee

“I will pay you in trouble and terror.”

— Tanith Lee

Are not all loves secretly the same? A hundred flowers sprung from a single root.

— Tanith Lee

Archetypes are universal, and, in subtle or extravagant ways, interchangeable.

— Tanith Lee

I've been criticised for writing in too complex a manner for younger people.

— Tanith Lee

If you run away from trouble, it always follows.

— Tanith Lee

I think of myself as a storyteller, and that is it.

— Tanith Lee

Madness. I did not get myself born to die. I have better things to do.

— Tanith Lee

When I started as a writer, I knew nothing about publishing-nothing about anything!

— Tanith Lee

I haven't changed. Something's happened to me, that's all.

— Tanith Lee

I simply write what I want, wish, long to write… The state of human life and the god or demon within. The…

— Tanith Lee

“I see that. Where am I?’ ‘You are quite secure, Rachaela. You have all of us.’ Rachaela quailed. ‘But you’re all mad.’…

— Tanith Lee

What is any of this to us? Time is endless and ours. Love and Death are only the games we play in…

— Tanith Lee

Oh, love. Love is best of all. There is no such total element, not even pain. Who has ever loved, knows this.…

— Tanith Lee

“It was then, so curiously, that Miranda held out her arms...And Rachaela went into the arms of Miranda, and together they wept,...like…

— Tanith Lee

“Roilant caught himself, with exasperation, slipping into vacuous philosophy, a sure sign his opinion of life was at its very lowest.”

— Tanith Lee

Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and nonfiction. And even there, who can be…

— Tanith Lee

“hatred and jealousy must find a tongue; only the creatures which never feel those things have no need to talk.”

— Tanith Lee

“Men could not have too much. Ecstasy and vulnerability belonged in the same dish. The fear the cup would be snatched away…

— Tanith Lee

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

I am interested in most mythology. Celtic or Christian no more than anything else. I will admit to a pleasure and sense…

— Tanith Lee

“Priests claimed the gods made men, but this was not so. Men made the gods. Firstly, by forming them in clay, by…

— Tanith Lee

“All the Scarabae—all but one—were crowded in the garden. They watched her. Their grim old faces gave away nothing. Like elderly kiddies…

— Tanith Lee

In the greater part of humankind there resides an instinct for survival. It is this which can clutch at straws and effect…

— Tanith Lee

“Having told of so much beauty, how is it possible to tell of her? There are no words left on the earth…

— Tanith Lee

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

“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

I must suppose that reading wonderful writers may, inadvertently, teach an avid reader a great deal -- not only about life and…

— Tanith Lee

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

In the usual way I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as…

— Tanith Lee

“But to Ezail, gifted with acceptance, it was only another facet of the riotous marvel of the earth. For all was marvelous…

— Tanith Lee

“All I can offer is this (without a single remembrance or image, or even incoherent wisp of correspondence), even so I knew,…

— Tanith Lee

“When I was younger and ran free in the forest, a hunter caught my mate and stunned him with a blow and…

— Tanith Lee

Now, writing every day, and being paid for it and encouraged to do it, it was as if, in the midst of…

— Tanith Lee