"I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not……" — Tanith Lee
"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."
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59 Quotes by Tanith Lee
Tanith Lee has 59 quotes on this site.
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Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and nonfiction. And even there, who…
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Whatever the hell I am, I am Me.
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I haven't changed. Something's happened to me, that's all.
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We need the expressive arts, the ancient scribes, the storytellers, the priests.
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Pirates have always fascinated me.
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I was reading some complex books in my own youth-and no, I didnt always understand every word, let alone every…
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Im a devotee of Dracula, which was a pathfinder in horror and vampire fiction.
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Im writing what comes into my head, or through me, or from somewhere else, and it is the most extraordinary,…
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When I started as a writer, I knew nothing about publishing-nothing about anything!
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People are always the start for meanimals. When I can get into their heads, gods, supernatural beings,immortals, the deadthese are…
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The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis.
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I like writing about women, weak and strong, pathetic and heroic. I like writing about men, ditto. And all the…
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More Drudgery Quotes
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Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow…
— Charles Babbage
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Too much of our work amounts to the drudgery of arranging means toward ends, mechanically placing the right foot in…
— Unknown Author
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Extemporaneous speaking should be practised [sic] and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public. However able and faithful…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Who first invented work, and bound the free And holiday-rejoicing spirit down . . . . To that dry drudgery…
— Charles Lamb
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The suburban housewife - she was the dream image of the young American women and the envy, it was said,…
— Betty Friedan
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To be alive spiritually man must have union with God and must be conscious of it. Apart from this union…
— Alan Watts
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I took to photography like a duck to water. I never wanted to do anything else. Excitement about the subject…
— Berenice Abbott
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First make sure that what you aspire to accomplish is worth accomplishing, and then throw your whole vitality into it.…
— B. C. Forbes
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Home economics should find its way into the curriculum of every school because the scientific study of a problem pertaining…
— Unknown Author
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While love takes on itself impossible tasks, yet it finds that love lightens all loads. It is the same burden…
— E. Stanley Jones
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Wishing you happiness always! Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in…
— Max Ehrmann
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In my own time there have been inventions of this sort, transparent windows tubes for diffusing warmth equally through all…
— Seneca the Younger
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