Tanith Lee Quotes
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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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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 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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'Anackire asks nothing because she needs nothing, being everything,' Raldnor said tightly, using a quotation of the temple.The Ommos laughed gently and shook his head.'Such undemanding gods.'
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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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I love writers all across the board, but one who influenced me very directly at the beginning was Mary Renault.
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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.
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Men think for themselves when they’re men.
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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.
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'Is it the regency you want, or me?''The regency. You, sweetheart, are the worthless dross that comes with it.'
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'Uasti was a good teacher,' he said. 'She made you look a little way into yourself, see what you could become.'
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I'm 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 I'm very greedy, and I really enjoy it!
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Genre categories are irrelevant. I dislike them, but I do not have the casting vote.
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People are always the start for me... animals, when I can get into their heads, gods, supernatural beings, immortals, the dead... these are all people to me.
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'Don’t judge yourself,' he said. 'None of us are ever good at it.'
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When I am fascinated by something, I like to play with it.
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Resist. Come, you’re tough enough, my lady, aren’t you, if you beg for death rather than inflict evil?
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I think of myself as a storyteller, and that is it.
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I like films, or some films, and would be intrigued to see my work on screen.
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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.
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Strange, that when we feel we understand all things, we understand nothing. Strange, that when we feel we understand nothing, we have begun, at last, to understand.
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I've been criticised for writing in too complex a manner for younger people.
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'Sometimes, Skorous,' Draco said, 'you are a fool.''Sometimes I am not alone in that.'
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Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and non-fiction. And even there, who can be sure?