Tanith Lee Quotes - Page 2

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• Danger and anger are everywhere. Love is the rarity, the gem buried in the core of the mine, the outpost of God.

  Tanith Lee

  Love Is, Danger, Buried

  Tanith Lee (2005). “Metallic Love”, p.124, Spectra

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• Men are not the causers of history. History itself, by a pressure of events, causes men to resort to particular actions.

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  Men, Events, Pressure

  Tanith Lee (1996). “The Gods are Thirsty”, Overlook Books

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• It's lovely. I hate it.

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  Hate, Lovely, I Hate

  Tanith Lee (2003). “The Claidi Collection”, Dutton Childrens Books

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• 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, none at all, the sand has kissed and whispered them away. And still, the sand blows on.

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  Blow, Mountain, Sand

  Tanith Lee (1987). “Tales from the Flat Earth: Night's Daughter”

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• 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 not one I would disown. Each tore its way from my entrails. Each had shortened my life, killed me with its own special little death.

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  Book, Special, Littles

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• The worst vulgarity is to avoid vulgarity solely on the grounds that it is vulgar.

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  Vulgarity Is, Vulgar, Worst

  Tanith Lee (2013). “The Silver Metal Lover”, p.55, Hachette UK

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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 concept-but I got the main thrust, which was like a lifeline in a fluctuating world.

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  Book, Reading, World

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• Whatever the hell I am, I am Me.

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  Hell

  Tanith Lee (2002). “The Claidi journals”

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• It was not apathy. It was an intelligent disinterest in those things that could have no bearing on one's existence.

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  Intelligent, Apathy, Disinterest

  Tanith Lee (2014). “Red as Blood, or Tales from the Sisters Grimmer: Expanded Edition”, p.67, Wildside Press LLC

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• The dictate of the light says: Know yourself and what you are. The dark replies, By all means, but then become afraid.

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  Mean, Dark, Light

  Tanith Lee (2007). “The Secret Book of Paradys”, p.122, The Overlook Press

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• He sat by her, watching every gesture she made, as if he would paint her portrait afterward.

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  Portraits, Gestures, Paint

  Tanith Lee (2014). “Red as Blood, or Tales from the Sisters Grimmer: Expanded Edition”, p.57, Wildside Press LLC

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

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  Changed, I Haven't Changed, Happened

  Tanith Lee (2015). “Black Unicorn”, p.78, Hachette UK

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• I came up with a parallel Venice called Venus. set in a parallel Venice about 1701.

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  Venice, Venus, Parallels

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• It gets cold in the desert at night, particularly up in the mountains; the stars hammer on the rock and strike frost.

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  Stars, Night, Rocks

  Tanith Lee (2016). “DRINKING SAPPHIRE WINE (Special Edition)”, p.151, BookRix

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• I began to feel lighthearted. Don't ever do that; it tempts some dark and evil force abroad in the universe.

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  Dark, Evil, Force

  "Don't Bite the Sun" by Tanith Lee, Daw Books, Part 4, Chapter 4 (p. 122), 1976.

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• I hardly ever work from a synopsis -- I find they act like chains.

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  Synopsis, Chains

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• I love writers all across the board, but one who influenced me very directly at the beginning was Mary Renault.

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  Boards, Mary

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• 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, possibly more than in the so-called real world.

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  Real, Writing, Somewhere Else

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• 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.

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  Care, Film, Ifs

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

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  Flower, Roots, Hundred

  Tanith Lee (1987). “Tales from the Flat Earth: Night's Daughter”

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

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  Publishing

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• I like films, or some films, and would be intrigued to see my work on screen.

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  Would Be, Film, Intrigued

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• 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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  Writing, Feelings, Wish

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• Your dreams will betray you. Go nowhere on a horse that fades.

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  Dream, Horse, Betray

  "Night's Master".

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

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  Thinking, Storyteller

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