All Tanith Lee Quotes
- Genre categories are irrelevant. I dislike them, but I do not have the casting vote. Casting
- 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. Care
- I like films, or some films, and would be intrigued to see my work on screen. Film
- I love writers all across the board, but one who influenced me very directly at the beginning was Mary Renault. Across
- I never know where I am going, though. That is part of what makes it so wonderful. And after all, who does? All
- I think of myself as a storyteller, and that is it. Inspirational
- I've been criticised for writing in too complex a manner for younger people. Been
- No one is ever ordinary. Ever Ordinary
- When I am fascinated by something, I like to play with it. Fascinated
- Writers tell stories better, because they've had more practice, but everyone has a book in them. Yes, that old cliche. Better
- 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… Actress
- I began to feel lighthearted. Don't ever do that; it tempts some dark and evil force abroad in the universe. Abroad
- The humble were the elect of God. Did not the priests teach so, in their gemmed, kingly robes, from their towering pulpits? Elect
- Archetypes are universal, and, in subtle or extravagant ways, interchangeable. Archetype
- I was born in North London in 1947. I didn't learn to read until I was almost 8-partly bad schooling, and partly I suspect slight… Bad
- I came up with a parallel Venice called Venus. set in a parallel Venice about 1701. Called
- 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,… Belong
- How massively the mountains stand, while low to the ground the sand blows. The sand blows on and on. And then there are no mountains,… All
- Are not all loves secretly the same? A hundred flowers sprung from a single root. All
- I held out my book. It was precious to me, as were all the things I'd written; even where I despised their inadequacy there was… All