Tanith Lee Quotes - Page 3

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• Genre categories are irrelevant. I dislike them, but I do not have the casting vote.

  Tanith Lee

  Casting, Vote, Genre

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• Robespierre, crippled and blind, has yet to be healed to the knowledge that service - his desire - is a deed of savage-speaking gentleness, not soft-spoken savagery.

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  Desire, Savages, Deeds

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

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• I am interested in most mythology. Celtic or Christian no more than anything else. I will admit to a pleasure and sense of hope in what I see as the basic teachings of Christ, stripped of the nonsense that has sometimes been accumulated about them and the embarrassing misunderstanding.

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  Christian, Teaching, Sometimes

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• You should visit before you pass judgment on a place.

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  Judgment, Should

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• Tales of heroes end in bliss.

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  Hero, Bliss, Ends

  Tanith Lee (2003). “Mortal Suns”, p.175, The Overlook Press

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• Now, writing every day, and being paid for it and encouraged to do it, it was as if, in the midst of the clich?d dark and stormy night, I found the magical inn, its windows golden lit, and Summer was due to start tomorrow. I can only work at one thing well. Deprive me of that, and my "back-up plan," even now, will be the empty, stormy, darkened heath -- where, incidentally, even unpublished, somehow I'll still be writing.

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  Summer, Writing, Dark

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• No one more cynical than an idealist.

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  Cynical, Idealist

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

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• I tend not to analyse my work, though I'm frequently intrigued when other people take time to do so.

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  People, Take Time, Intrigued

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• 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 or gone insane. Suddenly, I just can't get anything into print. And apparently I'm not alone in this. There are people of very high standing, authors who are having problems. So I have been told. In my own case, the more disturbing element is the editor-in-chief who said to me, "I think this book is terrific. It ought to be in print. I can't publish it -- I've been told I mustn't." The indication is that I'm not writing what people want to read, but I never did.

  Tanith Lee

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  "Tanith Lee : Love & Death & Publishers", www.locusmag.com. April 1998.

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• In the greater part of humankind there resides an instinct for survival. It is this which can clutch at straws and effect a rescue from them. It is this which can, now and then, outwit fate.

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  Fate, Survival, Now And Then

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• We need the expressive arts, the ancient scribes, the storytellers, the priests. And that's where I put myself: as a storyteller. Not necessarily a high priestess, but certainly the storyteller. And I would love to be the storyteller of the tribe.

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  Art, Needs, Tribes

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• Some writers, of course, simply write, as they feel they are driven to do, by outer/inner inspirations. If, after the work is written and, hopefully, published, others respond -- that is the Champagne. But we, or some of us, don't write for the Champagne. We write because we write.

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  Inspiration, Writing, Driven

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• In the usual way 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. In my twenties some of my work for children was published by Macmillan. However, I was twenty-seven before my adult novel, The Birthgrave, was taken by DAW Books in the USA. This enabled me finally to stop doing stupid and soul-killing jobs, and start working day and night as a professional writer. It felt like a rescue from damnation, and still does.

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  Jobs, Children, Stupid

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• If you run away from trouble, it always follows.

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  Running, Running Away, Trouble

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

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• 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 of the so-called young.

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  Writing, Opinion, Comeback

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• 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.

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  Selfish, Writing, Selfishness

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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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  Important, Influence

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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 all people to me.

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  Animal, Supernatural Beings, People

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• 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, and Im very greedy, and I really enjoy it!

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  Writing, Somewhere Else, Things I Love

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• Im a devotee of Dracula, which was a pathfinder in horror and vampire fiction.

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  Vampire, Fiction, Horror

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• Pirates have always fascinated me.

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  Pirate, Fascinated

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• I'm not very good at being alive. Sometimes I despair of ever mastering it, getting it right. When I'm old, perhaps.

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  Despair, Alive, Sometimes

  Tanith Lee (2013). “The Silver Metal Lover”, p.15, Hachette UK

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• I hate the way, once you start to know someone, care about them, their behavior can distress you, even when it's unreasonable and not your fault, even if you were really trying to be careful, tactful.

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  Hate, Trying, Care

  Tanith Lee (2002). “The Claidi journals”

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

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  Time, Games, Play

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

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• Condemned and executioner with aren't coupled in a primitive rite.

  Tanith Lee

  Executioners, Primitive, Rite

  "Sabella".

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