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• As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.

  Tanith Lee

  Mother, Children, Fairy Stories

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• World's flying like birds; my car's in flight. The city lights are spattered on my windshield like the fragments of the night. And I'm in flight. The sky's a wheel, a merry-go-round of wings and snow and steel, and fire. We'll tread the sky, we'll ride the scarlet horses.

  Tanith Lee

  Horse, Night, Fire

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• For me, everyone I write of is real. I have little true say in what they want, what they do or end up as (or in). Their acts appall, enchant, disgust or astound me. Their ends fill me with retributive glee, or break my heart. I can only take credit (if I can even take credit for that) in reporting the scenario. This is not a disclaimer. Just a fact.

  Tanith Lee

  Real, Writing, Heart

  Innsmouth Free Press Interview, www.innsmouthfreepress.com.

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• It was so useful to lie with the truth.

  Tanith Lee

  Lying

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• 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 dyslexic problems. My father, driven mad by this, taught me to read. At 9 I began writing.

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  Father, Writing, Mad

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• Archetypes are universal, and, in subtle or extravagant ways, interchangeable.

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  Extravagance, Way, Subtle

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• The humble were the elect of God. Did not the priests teach so, in their gemmed, kingly robes, from their towering pulpits?

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  Humble, Pulpit, Priests

  Tanith Lee (1997). “The Book of the Beast”, p.25, The Overlook Press

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• 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 I said I wanted to be an actress. So that was what I wanted to be, but what I was, of course, was a writer.

  Tanith Lee

  Silly, School, Actresses

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• Writers tell stories better, because they've had more practice, but everyone has a book in them. Yes, that old cliche.

  Tanith Lee

  Book, Practice, Stories

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• I've been criticised for writing in too complex a manner for younger people.

  Tanith Lee

  Writing, People, Complexes

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• 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, silver, gold and moon-opal, night and sea, fire, earth, air and water.

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  Moon, Night, Fire

  Tanith Lee (2015). “Black Unicorn”, p.44, Hachette UK

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• She looked, and a scarlet butterfly flew away from her, away down the length of the tower, and then another, another, an unraveling scarf of butterflies like winged blood.

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  Butterfly, Blood, Towers

  Tanith Lee (2014). “Red as Blood, or Tales from the Sisters Grimmer: Expanded Edition”, p.73, Wildside Press LLC

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