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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'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 love writers all across the board, but one who influenced me very directly at the beginning was Mary Renault.
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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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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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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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'Is it the regency you want, or me?''The regency. You, sweetheart, are the worthless dross that comes with it.'
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'Don’t judge yourself,' he said. 'None of us are ever good at it.'
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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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Men think for themselves when they’re men.
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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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'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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Resist. Come, you’re tough enough, my lady, aren’t you, if you beg for death rather than inflict evil?
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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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'Sometimes, Skorous,' Draco said, 'you are a fool.''Sometimes I am not alone in that.'
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I think of myself as a storyteller, and that is it.
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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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The bird stabs the worm, the big cat breaks the bird’s neck, the man casts his spear into the heart of the cat. That is how the world is. Even the man had better look behind him; the wolf may be near, or another man, or fate, the hungriest hunter of them all.
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I like films, or some films, and would be intrigued to see my work on screen.
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When I am fascinated by something, I like to play with it.
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I like writing about women, weak and strong, pathetic and heroic. I like writing about men, ditto. And all the variants of men and women, beasts and demons.
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I've been criticised for writing in too complex a manner for younger people.