Tanith Lee Quotes

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• Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and nonfiction. And even there, who can be sure?
• Whatever the hell I am, I am Me.
• I haven't changed. Something's happened to me, that's all.
• We need the expressive arts, the ancient scribes, the storytellers, the priests.
• Pirates have always fascinated me.
• I was reading some complex books in my own youth-and no, I didnt always understand every word, let alone every concept-but I got the main…
• Im a devotee of Dracula, which was a pathfinder in horror and vampire fiction.
• Im writing what comes into my head, or through me, or from somewhere else, and it is the most extraordinary, exciting thing. I love it,…
• When I started as a writer, I knew nothing about publishing-nothing about anything!
• People are always the start for meanimals. When I can get into their heads, gods, supernatural beings,immortals, the deadthese are all people to me.
• The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis.
• 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,…
• There was no violence, no speed. It moved to the rhythm of an elder dance, putting all the rituals of the world to shame. Black,…
• 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.
• It gets cold in the desert at night, particularly up in the mountains; the stars hammer on the rock and strike frost.
• 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…
• Condemned and executioner are not coupled in a primitive rite.
• The dictate of the light says: Know yourself and what you are. The dark replies, By all means, but then become afraid.
• 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…
• As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.

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