Tanith Lee Quotes - Page 4

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• I like films, or some films, and would be intrigued to see my work on screen.

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  Would Be, Film, Intrigued

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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.

  Tanith Lee

  Writing, Feelings, Wish

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• Are not all loves secretly the same? A hundred flowers sprung from a single root.

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  Flower, Roots, Hundred

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

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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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  Mother, Children, Fairy Stories

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• Genre categories are irrelevant. I dislike them, but I do not have the casting vote.

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  Casting, Vote, Genre

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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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  Care, Film, Ifs

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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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• 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me of that, and my "back-up plan," even now, will be the empty, stormy, darkened heath -- where, incidentally, even unpublished, somehow I'll still be writing.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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• You should visit before you pass judgment on a place.

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  Judgment, Should

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• Your dreams will betray you. Go nowhere on a horse that fades.

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  Dream, Horse, Betray

  "Night's Master".

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• She looked, and a scarlet butterfly flew away from her, away down the length of the tower, and then another, another, an unraveling scarf of butterflies like winged blood.

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  Butterfly, Blood, Towers

  Tanith Lee (2014). “Red as Blood, or Tales from the Sisters Grimmer: Expanded Edition”, p.73, Wildside Press LLC

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• Tales of heroes end in bliss.

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  Hero, Bliss, Ends

  Tanith Lee (2003). “Mortal Suns”, p.175, The Overlook Press

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