Dawn rose from the desert and turned the river to wine. Tanith Lee More Quotes by Tanith Lee More Quotes From Tanith Lee Never be afraid of a cliché, if it expresses what you wish to say. Tanith Lee ifs wish I love writers all across the board, but one who influenced me very directly at the beginning was Mary Renault. Tanith Lee mary boards A rose by any other name Would get the blame For being what it is-- The colour of a kiss, The shadow of a flame. A rose may earn another name, So call it love; So call it love I will, And love is like the sea, Which changes constantly, And yet is still The same. Tanith Lee flames kissing love-is 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. Tanith Lee essence sleep profound Whatever the hell I am, I am Me. Tanith Lee hell You should visit before you pass judgment on a place. Tanith Lee judgment should If you run away from trouble, it always follows. Tanith Lee running-away trouble running 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. Tanith Lee horse fire night 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. Tanith Lee mad writing father The humble were the elect of God. Did not the priests teach so, in their gemmed, kingly robes, from their towering pulpits? Tanith Lee pulpit priests humble 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. Tanith Lee real heart writing Archetypes are universal, and, in subtle or extravagant ways, interchangeable. Tanith Lee subtle extravagance way It was so useful to lie with the truth. Tanith Lee lying I came up with a parallel Venice called Venus. set in a parallel Venice about 1701. Tanith Lee venice parallels venus 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. Tanith Lee teaching christian sometimes The worst vulgarity is to avoid vulgarity solely on the grounds that it is vulgar. Tanith Lee vulgarity-is vulgar worst No one more cynical than an idealist. Tanith Lee cynical idealist Hope is a punishable offense. The verdict is always death; one more death of the heart. Tanith Lee ambition hope heart Tales of heroes end in bliss. Tanith Lee bliss ends hero 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. Tanith Lee summer dark writing
