The so-called Real World. Human misery and sadness. Blind politics and general cruelty. Tanith Lee More Quotes by Tanith Lee More Quotes From Tanith Lee It's lovely. I hate it. Tanith Lee i-hate lovely hate 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 games play time If you run away from trouble, it always follows.' Rather my impression, too. Though that never stopped me trying. Tanith Lee trouble running trying Your dreams will betray you. Go nowhere on a horse that fades. Tanith Lee betray horse dream 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 butterfly towers blood 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 special littles book Are not all loves secretly the same? A hundred flowers sprung from a single root. Tanith Lee hundred flower roots 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-love somewhere-else writing 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-beings animal people Writers tell stories better, because they've had more practice, but everyone has a book in them. Yes, that old cliche. Tanith Lee practice stories book I've been criticised for writing in too complex a manner for younger people. Tanith Lee complexes writing people I think of myself as a storyteller, and that is it. Tanith Lee storyteller thinking I like films, or some films, and would be intrigued to see my work on screen. Tanith Lee intrigued film would-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 film care ifs Genre categories are irrelevant. I dislike them, but I do not have the casting vote. Tanith Lee casting genre vote 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-stories mother children 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 wish feelings writing The dictate of the light says: Know yourself and what you are. The dark replies, By all means, but then become afraid. Tanith Lee light dark mean Condemned and executioner with aren't coupled in a primitive rite. Tanith Lee executioners rite primitive
