Tanith Lee Quotes - Page 3

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• In the greater part of humankind there resides an instinct for survival. It is this which can clutch at straws and effect a rescue from them. It is this which can, now and then, outwit fate.

  Tanith Lee

  Fate, Survival, Now And Then

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• If anyone ever wonders why there's nothing coming from me, it's not my fault. I'm doing the work. No, I haven't deteriorated or gone insane. Suddenly, I just can't get anything into print. And apparently I'm not alone in this. There are people of very high standing, authors who are having problems. So I have been told. In my own case, the more disturbing element is the editor-in-chief who said to me, "I think this book is terrific. It ought to be in print. I can't publish it -- I've been told I mustn't." The indication is that I'm not writing what people want to read, but I never did.

  Tanith Lee

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  "Tanith Lee : Love & Death & Publishers", www.locusmag.com. April 1998.

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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.

  Tanith Lee

  Desire, Savages, Deeds

  Tanith Lee (1996). “The Gods are Thirsty”, Overlook Books

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• Some writers, of course, simply write, as they feel they are driven to do, by outer/inner inspirations. If, after the work is written and, hopefully, published, others respond -- that is the Champagne. But we, or some of us, don't write for the Champagne. We write because we write.

  Tanith Lee

  Inspiration, Writing, Driven

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• No one more cynical than an idealist.

  Tanith Lee

  Cynical, Idealist

  Tanith Lee (1996). “The Gods are Thirsty”, Overlook Books

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• If you run away from trouble, it always follows.

  Tanith Lee

  Running, Running Away, Trouble

  Tanith Lee (2003). “The Claidi Collection”, Dutton Childrens Books

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• I was born in North London in 1947. I didn't learn to read until I was almost 8-partly bad schooling, and partly I suspect slight dyslexic problems. My father, driven mad by this, taught me to read. At 9 I began writing.

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  Father, Writing, Mad

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• There was no violence, no speed. It moved to the rhythm of an elder dance, putting all the rituals of the world to shame. Black, silver, gold and moon-opal, night and sea, fire, earth, air and water.

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  Moon, Night, Fire

  Tanith Lee (2015). “Black Unicorn”, p.44, Hachette UK

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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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  Important, Influence

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• People are always the start for meanimals. When I can get into their heads, gods, supernatural beings,immortals, the deadthese are all people to me.

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  Animal, Supernatural Beings, People

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• When I started as a writer, I knew nothing about publishing-nothing about anything!

  Tanith Lee

  Publishing

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• Im 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 Im very greedy, and I really enjoy it!

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  Writing, Somewhere Else, Things I Love

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• Im a devotee of Dracula, which was a pathfinder in horror and vampire fiction.

  Tanith Lee

  Vampire, Fiction, Horror

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• Pirates have always fascinated me.

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  Pirate, Fascinated

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• I'm not very good at being alive. Sometimes I despair of ever mastering it, getting it right. When I'm old, perhaps.

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  Despair, Alive, Sometimes

  Tanith Lee (2013). “The Silver Metal Lover”, p.15, Hachette UK

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• I hate the way, once you start to know someone, care about them, their behavior can distress you, even when it's unreasonable and not your fault, even if you were really trying to be careful, tactful.

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  Hate, Trying, Care

  Tanith Lee (2002). “The Claidi journals”

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• What is any of this to us? Time is endless and ours. Love and Death are only the games we play in it.

  Tanith Lee

  Time, Games, Play

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

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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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  Selfish, Writing, Selfishness

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• If they had said my writing wasn't good enough, fair enough, that's an opinion. But to say it's too complex is to insult the intelligence of the so-called young.

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  Writing, Opinion, Comeback

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• Condemned and executioner with aren't coupled in a primitive rite.

  Tanith Lee

  Executioners, Primitive, Rite

  "Sabella".

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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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• The humble were the elect of God. Did not the priests teach so, in their gemmed, kingly robes, from their towering pulpits?

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  Humble, Pulpit, Priests

  Tanith Lee (1997). “The Book of the Beast”, p.25, The Overlook Press

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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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  Silly, School, Actresses

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• I've been criticised for writing in too complex a manner for younger people.

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  Writing, People, Complexes

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• I think of myself as a storyteller, and that is it.

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  Thinking, Storyteller

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