Tanith Lee Quotes

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• The bitterness of joy lies in the knowledge that is cannot last. Nor should joy last beyond a certain season, for, after that season, even joy would become merely habit.

  Tanith Lee

  Lying, Joy, Lasts

  Christian Dörge (Illustrator), Tanith Lee (2016). “DELUSION'S MASTER (Special Edition)”, p.189, BookRix

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• Maidens who stay maidens turn into saints. Old women become sorceresses. Tough jobs, both of these.

  Tanith Lee

  Jobs, Saint, Tough

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• We need the expressive arts, the ancient scribes, the storytellers, the priests.

  Tanith Lee

  Art, Needs, Ancient

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• I will draw you back to me. You shall see. By a chain of stars.

  Tanith Lee

  Stars, Chains, Draws

  Tanith Lee (2014). “Red as Blood, or Tales from the Sisters Grimmer: Expanded Edition”, p.80, Wildside Press LLC

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• No one is ever ordinary.

  Tanith Lee

  Ordinary

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• When I am fascinated by something, I like to play with it.

  Tanith Lee

  Play, Fascinated

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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.

  Tanith Lee

  Strong, Writing, Men

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• Flat or round, there has always been hate in the world.

  Tanith Lee

  Hate, World, Flats

  Tanith Lee (1981). “Tales from the Flat Earth: The Lords of Darkness Night's Master Death's Master Delusion's Master”

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• Dawn rose from the desert and turned the river to wine.

  Tanith Lee

  Wine, Rivers, Rose

  Tanith Lee (1981). “Tales from the Flat Earth: The Lords of Darkness Night's Master Death's Master Delusion's Master”

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• The so-called Real World. Human misery and sadness. Blind politics and general cruelty.

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  Real, Sadness, World

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• Madness. I did not get myself born to die. I have better things to do.

  Tanith Lee

  Madness, Born, Things To Do

  Tanith Lee (1987). “Tales from the Flat Earth: Night's Daughter”

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• I never know where I am going, though. That is part of what makes it so wonderful. And after all, who does?

  Tanith Lee

  Doe, Wonderful, Knows

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• The soul is a magician. Only living flesh hampers it.

  Tanith Lee

  Soul, Flesh, Hamper

  Tanith Lee (2016). “Death's Master”, p.20, Penguin

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• We all have our dreams. May we find them, and God have mercy on us when we do.

  Tanith Lee

  Dream, May, Mercy

  Tanith Lee (1991). “The Book of the Dead”, Overlook Pr

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• Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and nonfiction. And even there, who can be sure?

  Tanith Lee

  Writing, Scary, Atheism

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• I must suppose that reading wonderful writers may, inadvertently, teach an avid reader a great deal -- not only about life and other matters, but about how to write. Therefore doubtless I have benefited from frequent immersions in the glowing genius of others. It would be nice to think so. (I do actually think so). But to improve my skills will never be the prompting force of my reading -- that's just literary lust.

  Tanith Lee

  Nice, Reading, Writing

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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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• Ecstasy and vulnerability belonged in the same dish. The fear the cup would be snatched away was what gave the wine its savor.

  Tanith Lee

  Wine, Would Be, Cups

  Tanith Lee (2016). “Death's Master”, p.72, Penguin

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

  Tanith Lee

  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.

  Tanith Lee

  Real, Writing, Somewhere Else

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• Never be afraid of a cliché, if it expresses what you wish to say.

  Tanith Lee

  Wish, Ifs

  Tanith Lee (2013). “The Silver Metal Lover”, p.79, Hachette UK

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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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  Boards, Mary

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• We need the expressive arts, the ancient scribes, the storytellers, the priests. And that's where I put myself: as a storyteller. Not necessarily a high priestess, but certainly the storyteller. And I would love to be the storyteller of the tribe.

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  Art, Needs, Tribes

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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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