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• I held out my book. It was precious to me, as were all the things I'd written; even where I despised their inadequacy there was not one I would disown. Each tore its way from my entrails. Each had shortened my life, killed me with its own special little death.

  Tanith Lee

  Book, Special, Littles

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• Danger and anger are everywhere. Love is the rarity, the gem buried in the core of the mine, the outpost of God.

  Tanith Lee

  Love Is, Danger, Buried

  Tanith Lee (2005). “Metallic Love”, p.124, Spectra

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• I simply write what I want, wish, long to write.... The state of human life and the god or demon within. The constant internal war that being alive can conjure.

  Tanith Lee

  War, Writing, Long

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• The worst vulgarity is to avoid vulgarity solely on the grounds that it is vulgar.

  Tanith Lee

  Vulgarity Is, Vulgar, Worst

  Tanith Lee (2013). “The Silver Metal Lover”, p.55, Hachette UK

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• He sat by her, watching every gesture she made, as if he would paint her portrait afterward.

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  Portraits, Gestures, Paint

  Tanith Lee (2014). “Red as Blood, or Tales from the Sisters Grimmer: Expanded Edition”, p.57, Wildside Press LLC

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• It was not apathy. It was an intelligent disinterest in those things that could have no bearing on one's existence.

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  Intelligent, Apathy, Disinterest

  Tanith Lee (2014). “Red as Blood, or Tales from the Sisters Grimmer: Expanded Edition”, p.67, Wildside Press LLC

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• I was reading some complex books in my own youth-and no, I didnt always understand every word, let alone every concept-but I got the main thrust, which was like a lifeline in a fluctuating world.

  Tanith Lee

  Book, Reading, World

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• Whatever the hell I am, I am Me.

  Tanith Lee

  Hell

  Tanith Lee (2002). “The Claidi journals”

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• The dictate of the light says: Know yourself and what you are. The dark replies, By all means, but then become afraid.

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  Mean, Dark, Light

  Tanith Lee (2007). “The Secret Book of Paradys”, p.122, The Overlook Press

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• I came up with a parallel Venice called Venus. set in a parallel Venice about 1701.

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  Venice, Venus, Parallels

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• I haven't changed. Something's happened to me, that's all.

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  Changed, I Haven't Changed, Happened

  Tanith Lee (2015). “Black Unicorn”, p.78, Hachette UK

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• It gets cold in the desert at night, particularly up in the mountains; the stars hammer on the rock and strike frost.

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  Stars, Night, Rocks

  Tanith Lee (2016). “DRINKING SAPPHIRE WINE (Special Edition)”, p.151, BookRix

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• She could not mourn. She could no longer weep grasping the essence of annihilation, she wished only to cease, to be no more, as if sunk in some profound sleep devoid of wakening.

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  Sleep, Essence, Profound

  Tanith Lee (2014). “Red as Blood, or Tales from the Sisters Grimmer: Expanded Edition”, p.77, Wildside Press LLC

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• I began to feel lighthearted. Don't ever do that; it tempts some dark and evil force abroad in the universe.

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  Dark, Evil, Force

  "Don't Bite the Sun" by Tanith Lee, Daw Books, Part 4, Chapter 4 (p. 122), 1976.

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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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  Real, Writing, Somewhere Else

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• I hardly ever work from a synopsis -- I find they act like chains.

  Tanith Lee

  Synopsis, Chains

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• I love writers all across the board, but one who influenced me very directly at the beginning was Mary Renault.

  Tanith Lee

  Boards, Mary

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• It was so useful to lie with the truth.

  Tanith Lee

  Lying

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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.

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  Real, Writing, Heart

  Innsmouth Free Press Interview, www.innsmouthfreepress.com.

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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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• 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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• 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.

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  Horse, Night, Fire

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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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• 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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• 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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