Tanith Lee Quotations | Page 2

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!

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

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.

The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis.

As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.

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.

The dictate of the light says: Know yourself and what you are. The dark replies, By all means, but then become afraid.

Condemned and executioner are not coupled in a primitive rite.

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.

It gets cold in the desert at night, particularly up in the mountains; the stars hammer on the rock and strike frost.