Are not all loves secretly the same? A hundred flowers sprung from a single root. Tanith Lee More Quotes by Tanith Lee More Quotes From Tanith Lee 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. Tanith Lee carehatetrying It's lovely. I hate it. Tanith Lee i-hatelovelyhate 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 gamesplaytime If you run away from trouble, it always follows.' Rather my impression, too. Though that never stopped me trying. Tanith Lee troublerunningtrying Your dreams will betray you. Go nowhere on a horse that fades. Tanith Lee betrayhorsedream 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. Tanith Lee butterflytowersblood 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 speciallittlesbook 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! Tanith Lee things-i-lovesomewhere-elsewriting When I started as a writer, I knew nothing about publishing-nothing about anything! Tanith Lee publishing 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. Tanith Lee supernatural-beingsanimalpeople Writers tell stories better, because they've had more practice, but everyone has a book in them. Yes, that old cliche. Tanith Lee practicestoriesbook I've been criticised for writing in too complex a manner for younger people. Tanith Lee complexeswritingpeople I think of myself as a storyteller, and that is it. Tanith Lee storytellerthinking I like films, or some films, and would be intrigued to see my work on screen. Tanith Lee intriguedfilmwould-be 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. Tanith Lee filmcareifs Genre categories are irrelevant. I dislike them, but I do not have the casting vote. Tanith Lee castinggenrevote As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm. Tanith Lee fairy-storiesmotherchildren 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 wishfeelingswriting The dictate of the light says: Know yourself and what you are. The dark replies, By all means, but then become afraid. Tanith Lee lightdarkmean Condemned and executioner with aren't coupled in a primitive rite. Tanith Lee executionersriteprimitive
