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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Men think for themselves when they’re men.
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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 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'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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I love writers all across the board, but one who influenced me very directly at the beginning was Mary Renault.
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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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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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When I am fascinated by something, I like to play with it.
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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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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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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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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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Genre categories are irrelevant. I dislike them, but I do not have the casting vote.
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'Don’t judge yourself,' he said. 'None of us are ever good at it.'
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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?
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I like films, or some films, and would be intrigued to see my work on screen.
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I think of myself as a storyteller, and that is it.
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He showed no fear. It seemed that, at the commencement, his race had known gods and no other. Gods had bound and ill treated and slaughtered and played with them. Gods were a fact, as were the sun and the shaking of the earth. Just another terrible reality.
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Tonight it was to be a play for aristocrats to watch, concerning gods and shepherds; it was the humble villages that clamored for princesses and emperors.